Staff Software Engineer, Accessibility at Anthropic

Hybrid - San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY, Seattle, WA

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Staff Software Engineer, Accessibility on the UI Platform team at Anthropic. Responsible for designing and shipping accessible shared components, building automated accessibility testing, and improving build, deploy, and testing systems to keep Claude.ai compliant across surfaces. Directly shapes how teams across Anthropic ship accessible experiences, providing tools and systems that enable every feature to be accessible.

Salary

USD 320,000 - 405,000

Requirements

Skills

  • 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
  • Thrive in fast‑paced, collaborative environments and enjoy working closely with cross‑functional partners
  • Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description

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
  • Partner with product teams to resolve accessibility issues and prioritize the most impactful work
  • Maintain documentation and tooling that make accessible engineering approachable

Technologies

ReactTypeScriptWCAG 2.2 AAARIA Authoring PracticesHTML semanticsscreen readers (VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS, TalkBack)keyboard‑only navigationmagnificationvoice controlCI/CDbuild systemsdeployment automationstreaming or real‑time UI accessibilitynative platform accessibility on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows

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