Staff Software Engineer, Accessibility

About the role

The UI Platform team at Anthropic is responsible for the foundational layer that makes Claude usable across various surfaces. This includes shared components, automated testing, and tooling that enable other product teams to ship accessible experiences efficiently.

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
• Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent building accessible products, shared platforms, or developer tools
• Strong practical skills in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript or comparable frameworks)
• Hands-on familiarity with WCAG 2.2 AA, ARIA Authoring Practices, and HTML semantics
• 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
• Solid instincts around accessibility, reliability, and quality—and enjoy operationalizing those instincts in production systems
• Thriving in fast-paced, collaborative environments and enjoying working closely with cross-functional partners

Qualifications

• Formal certifications or education credentials

Skills

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

Benefits

Anthropic offers 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.

Pay

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

Schedule

We currently 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.

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. 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 you're interested in this work.

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. 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!