Software Engineer, Desktop

About Anthropic

Anthropics 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

Were looking for desktop app 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 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.

Today our app is mostly web-based but were eager to build the best possible version of Claude for macOS and Windows with a mix of both native and web technologies. You might be a great fit for this role if youre up for the challenge of learning multiple programming languages.

We are more interested in strong engineers excited to learn new languages and technologies to build the best possible experience than we are looking for people with hands-on experience in Chromium Electron C or the various native macOS and Windows APIs. We believe that strong engineers can learn whatever technology is best suited to build the best possible experience and we understand that even the best engineers will have little experience with one of the operating systems and areas wed like to invest in.

Were looking for curious engineers excited to figure out with us what AI on the desktop could do.

Responsibilities :

• Develop and maintain the core infrastructure and features within and in our Electron-based desktop app using a typical web stack (TypeScript React)
• Use native code (Rust Swift C) to bring advanced features to the desktop app connecting Claude to macOS and Windows
• Optimize application performance memory usage and startup time across platforms
• Design and build robust update mechanisms and deployment pipelines
• Create monitoring tools to track application performance and user experience
• Build a strong intuition for how advanced LLMs could be most useful on your computer augmenting humans in their work

You may be a good fit if you have :

Were working with a large number of technologies - and you might be an excellent candidate even if youve only worked with a subset of them. An ideal candidate may have never used Electron before but does have hands-on experience in working with Chromiums C. Similarly a great candidate may have worked on Electron apps but hasnt used C or Swift before.

We understand that even the best engineers will have more experience with some platforms than others.

Strong candidates may also have experience with :

Deadline to apply : None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

The expectedbase compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity benefits and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary :

$320000 - $405000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements : We require at least a Bachelors 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 arent 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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were 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 were 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. Were 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. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage : Learn about our policyfor using AI in our application process

Key Skills

MAC,Active Directory,Switching,Information Technology,Access Points,Deskstops,PowerShell,OS,Windows,SCCM,Troubleshoot,Computer information system,Setup,hardware,Technical Support

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 320000 - 405000