Anthropic· AI Research & Engineering· San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
Design Engineer, AI Capability Development (Education Labs)
Classified Tasks (16)
Automate 0%Augment 56%Human-Only 44%
Augment (9)
AI assists, human decides
Ship features that help users develop real skill with AI, measuring success by capability growth.
technical
Architect end-to-end prototypes (front-end and back-end) that test new interaction paradigms.
technical
Prototype new ideas and iterate them into production-quality features.
technical
Translate research insights about skill development and human-AI collaboration into shipped product through close collaboration with researchers.
analytical
Document and share work through clear writing, prototypes, and presentations to influence organizational thinking.
communication
Integrate skill development principles into product design and experiences.
creative
Use Claude as a capability-building partner within product experiences.
technical
Measure user capability growth to assess and validate product impact.
analytical
Study how AI transforms human capability and apply findings to feature development.
analytical
Human-Only (7)
Requires human judgment
Establish technical direction and reusable patterns for the team.
leadership
Build relationships across Product, Design, and Research to influence product strategy.
communication
Shape team strategy and roadmap by identifying highest-leverage opportunities and building stakeholder conviction.
leadership
Explore new interaction patterns rather than optimizing existing ones.
creative
Operate as a one-person technical shop by owning prototyping, technical direction, and shipping production-quality features to millions of users.
operational
Craft front-of-the-frontend motion, polish, and interaction feel in user interfaces.
creative
Define standards and success criteria for capability-building experiences.
leadership
Job description
About Anthropic 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. About the role We believe skill with AI is fundamental to human agency. Education Labs builds the paradigms that help people become genuinely more capable—not just more engaged. This is a new kind of role: part researcher, part product builder, part interaction designer. You'll be the second technical builder on a small team studying how AI transforms human capability—and shipping features based on what we discover. You'll have significant creative license to define what "good" looks like, exploring new interaction patterns rather than optimizing existing ones. We're skeptical of tutorials, onboarding flows, and engagement metrics. We care about experiences that make users progressively more capable, curious, and empowered over time. This means integrating skill development into product design, using Claude itself as a capability-building partner, and measuring success by how users actually grow. You'll operate as a one-person technical shop: prototyping new ideas, establishing technical direction, and shipping production-quality features to millions of users. You'll need strong product instincts and clean interface design sensibilities, balanced with comfort in ambiguity and frontier thinking. Responsibilities: Ship features that help users develop real skill with AI—measuring success by capability growth, not time-on-site Architect end-to-end prototypes (front-end and back-end) that test new interaction paradigms, with particular attention to the front-of-the-frontend: motion, polish, and interaction feel Define technical direction for the team—establish patterns others can follow Build relationships across Product, Design, and Research to influence how skill development principles shape Anthropic's broader product strategy Shape team strategy and roadmap—identify the highest-leverage opportunities and build conviction across stakeholders Translate research insights about skill development and human-AI collaboration into shipped product through close collaboration with researchers Document and share your work through clear writing, prototypes, and presentations that influence thinking across the organization You may be a good fit if you have: Strong full-stack engineering with design sensibility 6+ years building and shipping web products, with deep expertise across the stack Strong front-end craft: TypeScript/JavaScript, React, CSS—with an eye for interaction design, motion, and visual detail Solid back-end and data pipeline experience: Python, API design, analytics infrastructure A portfolio showcasing innovative interaction designs and high-quality implementations Track record of independently driving features from prototype to production Deep conviction about human capability Strong perspective on how technology should enhance human capabilities rather than diminish them Experience or genuine passion for skill development, HCI, developer tools, or products that help people become more capable Skepticism of purely eng