Design Engineer, Web

Position Overview
We're looking for a senior Design Engineer to join our Brand Web team, working at the intersection of design and engineering to shape how Anthropic's web properties get built. In this role, you’ll own significant surfaces of anthropic.com and claude.com—from interactive marketing pages and data visualization systems to internal tooling that supports our content operations at scale. You’ll work alongside designers, engineers, and brand and content teams to set technical direction and partner with platform and product engineering crews on the infrastructure that underpins these surfaces.

Responsibilities

Own the architecture and implementation of significant surfaces of claude.com and/or anthropic.com, including design system code, page templates, interactive experiences, and data visualization systems. Set the technical direction, not just deliver against it.

Lead the technical side of major web initiatives end-to-end, such as migrations, redesigns, and new product surfaces, covering scoping, architectural decisions, partner coordination, and shipping.

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.

Build creative tooling and internal systems that change how the team works: Claude-powered design system tools, page generators, content workflows, and MCP integrations.

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—serving as the technical owner those teams rely on.

Make and document architecture and technical standards decisions: framework choices, performance budgets, accessibility implementation, code quality, and frontend infrastructure. Raise the bar on craft for engineers across the team.

Build and evolve the localization infrastructure that supports our growing international presence, including content modeling for translation workflows, integration with translation vendors, and patterns that make localized pages performant and maintainable.

Mentor mid‑level engineers and contribute to hiring. As the team grows, this role should be one of the technical leaders shaping how we work.

Qualifications

Deep experience building and shipping production web properties at scale, with ownership of architecture decisions and the ability to read their impact in production.

Expertise in modern frontend frameworks (Next.js / React) with strong opinions on their usage, limitations, and long‑term architecture strategies.

Experience leading work on headless CMS platforms—not just using them but shaping the content model, publishing experience, and operational governance.

Build internal and creative tooling that others on the team come to depend on, with a track record of delivering new capabilities that were not previously available.

Operate as a peer to platform, security, and product engineering teams, partnering across orgs on shared infrastructure while maintaining design and craft sensibility.

Move fluidly between hands‑on building, technical direction‑setting, and explaining tradeoffs to non‑technical partners, defending decisions in a room of designers, PMs, and engineers.

Care about design and craft—refined typography, deliberate motion, and considered interaction are visible in your work.

Shipped localized web properties at production scale, with hands‑on experience in content modeling, tooling, and workflow decisions that sustain localization beyond one‑time projects.

Preferred Qualifications

Built AI‑powered creative tooling or developer tooling with real adoption, such as MCP servers, Claude skills, design system generators, or content workflows.

Player‑coach or technical lead experience, including code review, mentorship, hiring, and setting engineering standards.

Deep experience with performance and Core Web Vitals on content‑heavy marketing sites, including architectural decisions that make those metrics sustainable.

Compensation
Annual Salary: $305,000—$385,000 USD

Logistics & Benefits
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
Required field of study: Relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
Minimum years of experience: Varies by internal level.
Location‑based hybrid policy: Staff are expected to be in one of our offices at least 25 % of the time.
Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas and will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa if an offer is made.
We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a collaborative office space.

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