Lead Technical Instructor

at Anthropic

📍 New York City, United States

USD 270,000-310,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ Hybrid

✅ Visa Sponsorship

Tech Stack
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1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;

3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;

10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.

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Details

Anthropic is building a dedicated technical instruction function to provide exceptional learning experiences and establish consistent standards across technical programs. This role combines hands-on technical instruction with instructor development and quality improvement. Approximately half of the role involves delivering instructor-led technical training in New York and remotely across European time zones, while the other half focuses on developing instructors, running train-the-trainer programs, and improving instructional quality.

Responsibilities

Deliver hands-on technical instruction across onboarding, residency, and technical enablement programs in New York and remotely across European time zones.
Model excellent technical teaching for audiences ranging from small interactive labs to more than 100 technical practitioners.
Adapt instruction to different levels of experience and technical depth.
Run train-the-trainer programs for internal experts, contract instructors, and training partners using practice-teach, feedback, and certification processes.
Coach and calibrate instructors through live and recorded observations, actionable feedback, and recommendations regarding readiness to teach specific content.
Partner with technical experts to turn subject matter expertise into effective sessions, labs, exercises, and demonstrations.
Improve content based on learner and classroom outcomes.
Own instructional quality in assigned programs, staff East Coast program calendars with qualified instructors, and ensure delivery meets Anthropic standards.
Use learner and instructor data to identify instructional gaps and recommend improvements to curriculum, delivery, and instructor development.
Help evolve Anthropic's technical instruction function, including standards, instructor development practices, and approaches to scaling quality.

Requirements

At least 6 years of relevant professional experience in software engineering, solutions engineering, developer advocacy, technical education, or another technically deep role.
At least 3 years of hands-on technical instruction, including teaching engineers in live environments both in person and remotely.
Production engineering experience, including writing and shipping production software and engaging with experienced engineers on architecture, implementation, debugging, and technical tradeoffs.
Recent hands-on AI development experience. Within the past three years, candidates should have built or debugged applications using LLM APIs, agents, tool use, MCP, or related technologies.
Experience with rapidly changing AI development tools and unfamiliar technical problems.
Experience helping other instructors or technical presenters improve through observation, structured feedback, practice teaching, or train-the-trainer programs.
New York City location or willingness to relocate. The role works from the New York City office whenever an instructor-led program is in session, typically around three days per week.
Approximately 25% travel to San Francisco and, over time, Europe.
Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience designing or operating a train-the-trainer, instructor certification, or observer-calibration program.
A portfolio of designed and delivered sessions, labs, or courses, plus materials created for other instructors.
Experience teaching across time zones or to European audiences, including coaching instructors from recorded sessions.
Experience using Claude Code or a comparable agentic coding tool as a significant part of an engineering workflow.
Experience building with the Claude Developer Platform through Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry, or comparable infrastructure.
Experience with public speaking, conference workshops, or developer advocacy.
Deep enthusiasm for AI and a commitment to building and deploying it responsibly.

Benefits

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and an office space for collaboration. Anthropic sponsors visas and retains an immigration lawyer to assist with the process, although sponsorship availability may vary by role and candidate.