Head of Technical Training

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

You will be the first person at Anthropic whose full-time job is technical instruction. You'll spend your first year primarily in the classroom teaching engineers, architects, and other technical practitioners. You'll also build the people, standards, and systems that let Anthropic's technical instruction scale far beyond the people we directly employ.

What it asks for · 7

• 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 our 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.

Also a plus

• A portfolio of sessions you taught and a rubric or certification you designed, shared only if you have the right.
• Experience building an instruction or developer-education function from scratch.
• Experience managing a contractor instructor bench, or clearing instructors across regions from recordings or trained observers.
• 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.

What the job covers

• 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.

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Words the posting leans on

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