Anthropic
Head of Technical Training
$365K–$435K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 4+ years of hands-on technical instruction.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available; the company says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa for an offer recipient, but cannot successfully sponsor every role and candidate.
About the job
Build and lead Anthropic’s technical instruction function, teaching engineers and scaling high-quality instruction through instructor development, standards, and train-the-trainer programs.
What you'll do
- Teach hands-on technical sessions for engineers, field teams, and partners; improve sessions and labs for live instruction.
- Hire and develop instructors and curriculum developers, and establish observation, rehearsal, and teach-clearance standards.
- Scale instruction through train-the-trainer programs, staff other teams’ programs with cleared instructors, and track learner pass rates.
What they ask for
- 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, including writing and shipping software, and recent hands-on AI development: built or debugged applications with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, tool use, MCP, or similar in the last three years.
- People leadership, including hiring and performance management, while continuing to teach; experience designing or running instructor development, certification, or observation frameworks.
- Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate; able to meet stated office attendance and travel expectations (25 to 30 percent).
Nice to have
- Experience building an instruction or developer-education function from scratch, or managing a contractor instructor bench / 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.
Pay
$365,000 — $435,000 USD base salary
Tools
Claude, LLM APIs, agent frameworks, MCP, Claude Code, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry
AI focus
Teach engineers to build with Claude and develop hands-on technical instruction involving AI applications, LLM APIs, agents, and tool use.
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