Software Engineer, Claude Design
Core
Build Claude Design, a product enabling users to collaborate with AI to create visual work like prototypes, mockups, and marketing collateral.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (Frontend-leaning, craft-heavy)
Builds
Interactive design canvas, real-time editing, design-system inference, and AI-driven generation experiences
Domain
AI-powered creative tools / Generative AI
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Full-stack application development, deep frontend expertise, technical direction, zero-to-one product building, complex client-side state management, performance optimization, API design, database management, cloud technologies
Preferred skills
Visual collaboration tool experience (Figma, Canva), UI/UX for AI applications, user research and usability testing, canvas rendering, WebGL/shaders, real-time collaborative editing
Technologies
React, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Go
Responsibilities
Build and ship core product surfaces (canvas, editing, controls), collaborate with research teams to translate capabilities into intuitive experiences, work with designers and users to validate concepts, set technical direction for frontend architecture, design and run product experiments, own quality bar for UX and performance, strengthen handoff to production code, mentor engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership