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Head of Technical Training

Anthropic· Technical Education
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San Francisco, CA$365k - $435kPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead and build Anthropic's dedicated technical instruction function, transitioning from a distributed model to a centralized program. Primary focus is hands-on classroom instruction in year one, then scaling through people, standards, and systems for long-term impact.

Responsibilities

  • Lead from the front. Teach hands-on sessions to new Applied AI engineers, our field teams, and partner cohorts, in rooms from 12-person labs to 100-person training days.
  • Build the instructor bench. Hire and develop instructors and curriculum developers. Decide contract renewals, and recommend conversions to full-time, against criteria you define.
  • Set the quality bar. Own the observation rubric, dry-run protocol, and cleared-to-teach process for every instructor-led technical session.
  • Scale through train-the-trainer. Set the bar the Lead Technical Instructor's train-the-trainer program teaches to, for internal experts, contract instructors, and partner facilitators.
  • Turn expertise into instruction. Turn internal experts' content into sessions and labs that work in a live room.
  • Enable programs without owning them. Staff other teams' programs with cleared instructors, and own the quality of instruction inside them.
  • Measure and improve. Report learner pass rates per instructor each month, and act on them.

Qualifications

  • 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 live and hands-on, across audience sizes.
  • Production engineering. You have written and shipped production software and engage credibly with experienced engineers on architecture and debugging.
  • Recent hands-on AI development. In your last three years of work, you have built or debugged applications with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, tool use, MCP, or similar.
  • People leadership. You have managed instructors, trainers, developer advocates, or solutions engineers, including hiring and performance management, and kept teaching.
  • Instructor development. You have designed or run a train-the-trainer program, instructor certification, or observation framework.
  • San Francisco location. You are based in San Francisco or willing to relocate with relocation support, can be in the office every day a program runs, 3 days in a normal week, and can travel 25 to 30 percent.

Skills

Required:Hands-on technical instructionPeople leadershipTrain-the-trainer program design
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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