Software Engineer, Desktop

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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.

We’re 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 we’re 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 you’re 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 we’d like to invest in. We’re looking for curious engineers excited to figure out, with us, what AI on the desktop could do.

• Develop and maintain the core infrastructure and features within Claude.ai and in our Electron-based desktop app using a typical web stack (Type Script, 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.

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with strong emphasis on desktop application development.
• Practical experience with Electron and a deep understanding of its architecture.
• Strong JavaScript/Type Script skills and experience with modern front‑end frameworks.
• Take a product‑focused approach and care about building solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to use.
• Experience with native module development in C++ to extend application capabilities.
• Understanding of macOS and/or Windows platform‑specific technologies and development patterns.
• Experience with cross‑platform application packaging, code signing, and distribution.
• Thriving in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment and enjoying working closely with cross‑functional teams.

• Operating systems, browsers, or deeply OS‑integrated software (screen sharing, video‑calling, game engines, etc).
• AI/ML model integration and understanding of model capabilities.
• Cross‑platform development strategies.
• Vision for future AI‑powered desktop applications and a drive to make that vision a reality.
• Experience with IPC (Inter‑Process Communication) and security in desktop applications.

None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

$320,000—$405,000 USD

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

Location-based hybrid policy: We expect all staff to be in one of our…