Software Engineer, Desktop

About the Role

We're looking for desktop app engineers to join our Claude product team and help build native applications that harness the transformative power of advanced language models.

Your mission will be to package our AI capabilities into elegant desktop experiences that put unprecedented capabilities at users' fingertips.

You will work with a talented team of engineers, researchers, and product specialists to design and implement key components that bridge our AI technology with intuitive user interfaces.

Join us in this exciting mission to transform how people engage with our AI technology and unlock new realms of human potential.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the core infrastructure and features within Claude.ai and in our Electron-based desktop app using a typical web stack (TypeScript, React)
• Use native code (Rust, Swift, C++) to bring advanced features to the desktop app, connecting Claude to macOS and Windows
• Optimize application performance, memory usage, and startup time across platforms
• Design and build robust update mechanisms and deployment pipelines
• Create monitoring tools to track application performance and user experience
• Build a strong intuition for how advanced LLMs could be most useful on your computer, augmenting humans in their work

Requirements:

• Have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with strong emphasis on desktop application development
• Have practical experience with Electron and deep understanding of its architecture
• Possess strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills and experience with modern frontend frameworks
• Take a product-focused approach and care about building solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to use
• Have experience with native module development in C++ to extend application capabilities
• Understand macOS and/or Windows platform-specific technologies and development patterns
• Have experience with cross-platform application packaging, code signing, and distribution

Nice to Have:

• Experience working on and building operating systems, browsers, or deeply OS-integrated software (screensharing, video-calling, game engines, etc)
• Experience integrating and working with AI/ML models and understanding their capabilities
• Demonstrated success implementing cross-platform development strategies
• Vision for the future of AI-powered desktop applications and a drive to make that vision a reality
• Have experience with IPC (Inter-Process Communication) and security in desktop applications

Logistics

The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000-$485,000 USD.