Job brief: Staff+ Software Engineer, Consumer

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• Listed on Anthropic's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-14 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-14.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Anthropic's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $320,000 to $405,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Francisco, CA
• Posted: 2026-11-13

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• 5+ years of experience building consumer-facing products, with a strong emphasis on product quality and user experience
• 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

Conditions

• 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.

Main duties

• Originate new consumer AI product bets and own them from first idea to launch
• Spot the gap between what Claude can do and what people actually experience, and bring the bet: what to build, why now, and the cheapest way to test it
• Take a vague direction and cut it down to the leanest real version one
• Set technical direction for the products you build
• Own the quality bar for how the product looks and feels, treating latency, responsiveness, and reliability as first-class concerns

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA: $221k a year (235 listings, 22 employers). This listing is 64% higher.
• Across Anthropic's 536 open listings, 55% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Anthropic hires

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