Job Description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role:

We're looking for seasoned desktop application engineers to join our Claude product team and help build native applications that harness the transformative power of advanced language models. Your mission will be to package our AI capabilities into elegant, cross-platform desktop experiences that put unprecedented capabilities at users' fingertips. You will work with a talented team of engineers, researchers, and product specialists to design and implement key components that bridge our AI technology with intuitive user interfaces. Join us in this exciting mission to transform how people engage with our AI technology and unlock new realms of human potential.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement cutting-edge desktop applications using Electron
• Develop and maintain the core infrastructure for our AI chatbot desktop application
• Optimize application performance, memory usage, and startup time across platforms
• Implement seamless API integrations between our AI backend and desktop frontend
• Design and build robust update mechanisms and deployment pipelines
• Create performant, native-like experiences using web technologies in Electron
• Develop native modules in C++ when Electron capabilities need extension
• Implement platform-specific features for Windows and macOS
• Collaborate with backend teams to ensure optimal AI model integration
• Create monitoring tools to track application performance and user experience

You might be a good fit if you:

• Have 6+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with strong emphasis on desktop application development
• Have practical experience with Electron.js and deep understanding of its architecture
• Possess strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills and experience with modern frontend frameworks
• Have experience with Node.js backend development and REST API integration
• Take a product-focused approach to building solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to use
• Have experience with native module development in C++ to extend application capabilities
• Understand macOS and/or Windows platform-specific technologies and development patterns
• Have experience with cross-platform application packaging, code signing, and distribution
• Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and enjoy working closely with cross-functional teams

Strong candidates may also:

• Have experience integrating and working with AI/ML models and understanding their capabilities
• Have experience with IPC (Inter-Process Communication) and security in desktop applications
• Have worked on 0 to 1 products and/or in a startup environment
• Have expertise in application telemetry, analytics, and performance optimization
• Have experience with CI/CD pipelines for desktop applications
• Possess a vision for the future of AI-powered desktop applications and a drive to make that vision a reality
• Have contributed to open-source Electron projects or extensions

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:

$320,000—$405,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

Job Tags

Visa sponsorship, Flexible hours,

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