Staff Software Engineer, Accessibility at Anthropic

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

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The UI Platform team at Anthropic is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Accessibility to design and ship accessible shared components, build the automated accessibility testing layer, and improve build, deploy, and testing systems that keep Claude.ai compliant across surfaces. Your work will shape how quickly teams can ship accessible experiences and how reliable those experiences are for users who rely on assistive technology.

Salary

USD 320,000 - 405,000

Requirements

Skills

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time 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 such as screen readers (VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS, TalkBack), keyboard‑only navigation, magnification, and voice control
  • Track record of building tools that improve developer productivity
  • Solid instincts around accessibility, reliability, and quality
  • Thrives in fast‑paced, collaborative environments and works closely with cross‑functional partners
  • Ability to pick up slack even when it goes outside the job description
  • Experience building shared component libraries, design systems, or reusable UI infrastructure
  • Accessibility testing experience—automated, manual, or with assistive technology
  • Experience with streaming or real‑time UI accessibility (live regions, dynamic content, queueing announcements)
  • Native platform accessibility on iOS, Android, macOS, or Windows
  • CI/CD, build systems, and deployment automation
  • Experience working with WCAG standards and producing or consuming Accessibility Conformance Reports

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 2.2ARIAHTMLScreen readers (VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS, TalkBack)CI/CDBuild systems

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