Technical Program Consultant — DARPA / ARPA-H

Engineering Biology Research Consortium; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Engineering Biology Research Consortium seeks a Technical Program Consultant to support DARPA/ARPA-H funding efforts on a remote, part-time basis (10–15 hrs/week) with a potential path to full-time. The role focuses on crafting moonshot proposals, building consortia, and managing programs with government-specific nuances.

Ideal candidates have DARPA/ARPA-H SETA experience or comparable government-funded program exposure, strong technical writing skills, and the ability to guide projects across

Qualifications

• Strong technical writing and feedback capacity.
• Ability to provide insightful feedback on highly complex technical proposals in areas of science and engineering you have never worked with before.
• Responsiveness, professionalism and affability needed to work with a diverse set of highly demanding clients.
• Capacity to pivot to novel highly intense projects with short notice and minimize failure risks on tight deadlines.
• Preferred: PhD with domain depth in biotech, health, AI, sensing, robotics, energy, or other hard tech fields.

Responsibilities

• Shape ideas that will receive moonshot funding: work with our clients to develop ambitious but achievable proposals.
• Serve as a jack of all trades for project development: help draft assorted documentation ranging from project descriptions to other materials.
• Build consortia. Source and screen partners, leverage and develop networks across the bio and tech space, evaluate and screen promising technologies.
• Design finances and project milestones: ensure that we develop program structures that are well defined and executable.
• Serve as a government affairs expert: ensure that our clients feel comfortable with all government specific nuances of the funding opportunities that they are engaging with.
• Project management: ensure projects are well managed and executed in a timely and efficient fashion, handle diverse stakeholders with varying degrees of preparedness.

Skills

Technical writing

Feedback capacity

Project management

Independent work

Education

PhD in biotech/health/AI

Job description

Technical Program Consultant — DARPA / ARPA-H

Technical Program Consultant — DARPA / ARPA-H

Former SETAs & federal R&D technical advisors are strongly encouraged to apply

Remote
Part-time, 10–15 hrs/week | Potential path to full-time

About us

Tetonic AI helps companies, universities, and consortia win funding from the moonshot agencies — primarily ARPA-H and DARPA. Our team leverages deep experience with these agencies to help our clients craft compelling applications likely to be successful at achieving funding. In the past year we have support almost a dozen applications across open solicitations and successfully shepherded a program to funding.

The role

• Shape ideas that will receive moonshot funding: work with our clients to develop ambitious but achievable proposals
• Serve as a jack of all trades for project development: help draft assorted documentation ranging from
• Build consortia. Source and screen partners, leverage and develop networks across the bio and tech space, evaluate and screen promising technologies
• Design finances and project milestones: ensure that we develop program structures that are well defined and executable
• Serve as a government affairs expert: ensure that our clients feel comfortable with all government specific nuances of the funding opportunities that they are engaging with
• Project management: ensure projects are well managed and executed in a timely and efficient fashion, handle diverse stakeholders with varying degrees of preparedness

Who we’re looking for:

Our ideal profile is a former DARPA or ARPA-H SETA — someone who supported program managers through program design, technical evaluation, and source selection and is deeply familiar with the programs these agencies develop and fund. Candidates with similar experiences will also be considered – these include candidates with deep scientific experience and familiarity with developing moonshot initiatives, candidates who have working designing and funding programs at similar peer agencies and others with exceptional scientific communication chops.

What you’ll need:

• Strong technical writing and feedback capacity
• Ability to provide insightful feedback on highly complex technical proposals in areas of science and engineering you have never worked with before
• Responsiveness, professionalism and affability needed to work with a diverse set of highly demanding clients
• Capacity to pivot to novel highly intense projects with short notice and minimize failure risks on tight deadlines
• Capacity to work independently with minimal direction to provide advice, organization and project direction

Preferred: PhD with domain depth in biotech, health, AI, sensing, robotics, energy, or other hard tech fields