Staff Software Engineer, Accessibility

About the role

The UI Platform team at Anthropic is responsible for the foundational layer that makes Claude usable for everyone. This includes shared components, automated testing, and tooling that enable other product teams to ship accessible experiences quickly, reliably, and with confidence.

This role focuses on shaping the definition of accessibility for AI products, designing and publishing accessible component primitives, libraries, and abstractions used across Anthropic's web and mobile surfaces, and developing automated testing and agency scanning infrastructure that catches accessibility regressions across surfaces.

Responsibilities

• Shape the definition of how AI products should be accessible
• Design and publish accessible component primitives, libraries, and abstractions used across Anthropic's web and mobile surfaces
• Integrate accessibility into product workflows so standards are met by default rather than retroactively remediated
• Develop automated testing and agentic scanning infrastructure that catches accessibility regressions across surfaces
• Persistently partner with product teams to resolve accessibility issues and prioritize the most impactful work
• Maintain documentation and tooling that make accessible engineering approachable

Qualifications

• Have 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent building accessible products, shared platforms, or developer tools that other engineers rely on
• Have strong practical skills in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript or comparable frameworks)
• Have hands-on familiarity with WCAG 2.2 AA, ARIA Authoring Practices, and HTML semantics
• Have experience testing with assistive technology — screen readers (VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS, TalkBack), keyboard-only navigation, magnification, voice control
• Care about developer experience and have a track record of building things that make other engineers more productive
• Have solid instincts around accessibility, reliability, and quality—and enjoy operationalizing those instincts in production systems
• Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with building shared component libraries, design systems or reusable UI infrastructure
• Experience with accessibility testing — automated, manual, or with assistive technology such as screen readers
• Experience with streaming or real-time UI accessibility — live regions, dynamic content, queueing announcements under assistive tech
• Experience with native platform accessibility on iOS, Android, macOS, or Windows
• Experience with CI/CD, build systems, and/or deployment automation
• Experience with working with WCAG standards and producing or consuming Accessibility Conformance Reports

What You Need

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Logistics

• 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.

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.

Our Mission

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.

Annual Compensation Range

The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000 - $405,000 USD.

Safety Matters

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

Research Directions

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.

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