Technical Program Manager - Science Strategy & Outreach

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Technical Program Manager to bridge the researchers advancing Claude’s capabilities with the external scientific community. You will conceptualize and run programs that get Claude into scientists’ hands, shaping the Anthropic Science Blog and collaborating with universities, funders, and societies.

You will have significant autonomy to decide funding and publication directions, drawing on a research background and experience with grants to accelerate scientific discovery.

Qualifications

• A PhD in a scientific or mathematical field, with a track record of original research.
• Proven writing ability for scientific and general audiences, with enough understanding of how modern AI models are trained to write about them accurately.
• Experience with the grants process, such as applying for and managing competitive funding, and ideally designing, reviewing, or administering funding programs
• Deep engagement with frontier AI: you use these tools in your own work, understand where they're strong and where they fail, and take seriously the possibility that AI will transform every face of the scientific process within the next few years
• Track record of driving multi-stakeholder projects to completion, coordinating people juggling other high-priority work

Responsibilities

• Act as the interface between research and the outside world. Stay close to researchers working on Claude's scientific capabilities and translate rapid capability gain into use by external researchers.
• Help set Anthropic’s external science strategy. Recommend which scientific areas and communities we focus on, and how our programs, collaborations, and communications fit together
• Guide the scientific direction of the Anthropic Science Blog. Work with researchers and the Editorial team to identify and source stories internal and external stories worth telling, draft and edit posts, and keep a steady cadence of high-quality science writing.
• Drive forward external science programs. Design, launch, and run grants and access programs such as AI for Science grants and Team plan offerings for research groups, as well as partnerships with scientific foundations and grantmaking organizations. Work with Beneficial Deployments on programs aimed at the highest-impact scientific areas.
• Gather feedback from scientific communities. Identify usage patterns and gather feedback on how researchers use Claude and what capability gaps exist, and turn it into concrete recommendations for research and product teams

Skills

Scientific writing

Grants experience

AI literacy

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Education

PhD in a scientific or mathematical field

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Technical Program Manager to bridge the researchers advancing Claude’s capabilities with the external scientific community. You will conceptualize and run programs that get Claude into scientists’ hands, shaping the Anthropic Science Blog and collaborating with universities, funders, and societies.

You will have significant autonomy to decide funding and publication directions, drawing on a research background and experience with grants to accelerate scientific discovery.