Design Engineer, Web

Anthropic Anthropic · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Marketing & Brand

Senior Design Engineer for Anthropic's Brand Web team, focusing on building and architecting web properties like anthropic.com and claude.com. Responsibilities include owning significant web surfaces, leading technical initiatives, defining CMS architecture, building internal tooling (potentially AI-powered), partnering with platform teams, and setting technical standards. The role emphasizes craft, rapid prototyping, and mentorship.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the architecture and implementation of significant surfaces of claude.com and/or[anthropic.com](http://anthropic.com), including design system code, page templates, interactive experiences, and data visualization systems. Set the technical direction, not just deliver against it.
  2. Lead the technical side of major web initiatives end-to-end, such as migrations, redesigns, and new product surfaces, including scoping, architecture decisions, partner coordination, and shipping.
  3. Define and evolve our headless CMS architecture, including content modeling, structured data workflows, editorial governance in code, and the systems that make the CMS usable by non-engineers across the company.
  4. Build creative tooling and internal systems that change how the team works: Claude-powered design system tools, page generators, content workflows, and MCP integrations. This is where the team's leverage compounds, and we expect this role to actively grow it.
  5. Partner directly with Web Platforms, Security, and Growth Product Engineering on the surfaces that span teams: deployments, performance, technical SEO, experimentation infrastructure, and incident response. Be the technical owner those teams partner with on our behalf.

Skills

Required

  • deep experience building and shipping production web properties at scale
  • experts in modern frontend frameworks (Next.js / React)
  • led work on headless CMS platforms
  • built internal tools and creative tooling
  • operate as a peer to platform, security, and product engineering teams
  • move fluidly between hands-on building, technical direction-setting, and explaining tradeoffs to non-technical partners
  • care about design and craft
  • shipped localized web properties at production scale

Nice to have

  • Built AI-powered creative tooling or developer tooling with real adoption
  • Player-coach or technical lead experience
  • Deep experience with performance and Core Web Vitals on content-heavy marketing sites

What the JD emphasized

  • ownership of architecture decisions and the consequences of them in production
  • shaped the content model, the publishing experience, and the operational governance around them
  • built internal tools and creative tooling that other people on a team came to depend on
  • The work you're most proud of is probably something that didn't exist before you decided it should.