Head of Technical Training

The role

You will build a dedicated technical instruction function at Anthropic. You will teach engineers and architects in classrooms and develop the people, standards, and systems to scale instruction.

What you will do

• Teach hands-on sessions to new Applied AI engineers, field teams, and partner cohorts.
• Hire and develop instructors and curriculum developers.
• Decide contract renewals and recommend conversions to full-time.
• Own the observation rubric, dry-run protocol, and cleared-to-teach process.
• Set the bar for the train-the-trainer program.
• Turn internal experts' content into sessions and labs.
• Staff other teams' programs with cleared instructors.
• Report learner pass rates per instructor each month.

Required 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.
• Production engineering experience writing and shipping production software.
• Recent hands-on AI development building or debugging applications with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, tool use, or MCP.
• People leadership experience managing instructors, trainers, developer advocates, or solutions engineers.
• Instructor development experience designing or running a train-the-trainer program, instructor certification, or observation framework.
• Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate.
• Can be in the office every day a program runs and 3 days in a normal week.
• Can travel 25 to 30 percent.
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Field of study relevant to the role.

Nice to have

• A portfolio of sessions taught and a rubric or certification designed.
• Experience building an instruction or developer-education function from scratch.
• Experience managing a contractor instructor bench or clearing instructors across regions.
• Daily use of Claude Code or a comparable agentic coding tool, or building on Claude through Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, or Microsoft Foundry.
• Deep enthusiasm for AI and real care about building it responsibly.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas, but not for every role and candidate.
• Relocation support is available.

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.