Head of Technical Training

Lead from the front: Deliver hands-on technical instruction across Anthropic’s onboarding and residency programs, from 12-person labs to 100-person field-readiness days. Set the tone for technical instruction by teaching regularly and modeling what excellent delivery looks like.

Build the instructor bench: Hire, onboard, manage, and develop technical instructors. Run the hiring loop, establish clear performance expectations, and make renewal and conversion decisions against criteria you define.

Set the quality bar: Define what excellent technical instruction looks like at Anthropic. Create and maintain the observation rubric, dry-run protocol, and cleared-to-teach process that every instructor-led technical session must meet.

Scale through certification: Design and run train-the-trainer programs for internal experts, contract instructors, and facilitators from our training partners. Assess instructors against Anthropic’s technical delivery standards and certify those who meet the bar, enabling instruction to scale beyond our employees.

Turn expertise into great instruction: Partner with Technical Enablement Leads to transform technical content into sessions, labs, and exercises that work in a live room. Bring back what you learn from teaching to continuously improve the content.

Enable programs without owning them: Partner with our onboarding and Training & Certification teams to staff programs with cleared instructors. Own the quality of instruction within those programs, even when the broader program sits elsewhere.

Measure and improve: Establish meaningful measures of learner outcomes and instructor quality. Review results at the session and instructor level, identify where instruction is falling short, and act on what you learn.

8+ years of relevant professional experience across software engineering, solutions engineering, developer advocacy, technical education, or related technical roles.

4+ years of hands-on technical instruction: You have taught engineers in live, hands-on settings, across different audience sizes and levels of technical depth. You know how to make a technical concept click in a room and how to adapt when it doesn’t.

Production engineering experience: You have written and shipped production code and can engage credibly with experienced engineers on architecture, implementation, debugging, and technical tradeoffs.

Recent hands-on AI development: Within the past three years, you have built or debugged applications using LLM APIs, agent frameworks, tool use, MCP, or similar technologies. You are comfortable getting hands-on with unfamiliar technical problems rather than teaching only from prepared material.

People leadership: You have managed instructors, trainers, developer advocates, solutions engineers, or similar technical practitioners, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and development. You have continued teaching or delivering technical content while managing others.

Instructor development: You have designed or run a train-the-trainer program, instructor certification process, observation framework, or comparable system for evaluating and improving instructor quality.

Location: Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate. This role requires being in the SF office whenever an instructor-led program is in session, typically 3–4 days per week.

A portfolio you can show us: sessions, labs, or courses you built and taught, and a rubric, certification, or TTT program you designed for others

Experience building an instruction or developer-education function from scratch

Experience managing a contractor or vendor-supplied instructor bench, or certifying instructors across regions from recordings or through trained observers

Experience with Claude Code, or a comparable agentic coding tool, as core infrastructure in your daily work

Experience building on the Claude Developer Platform through Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, or Microsoft Foundry

Public speaking, conference workshops, or community-facing developer advocacy

Deep enthusiasm for AI and genuine care about building it responsibly

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

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

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.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

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We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

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