Lead Technical Instructor

Anthropic•New York City, NY

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is seeking a Lead Technical Instructor in New York to establish and elevate technical instruction standards. This role involves delivering hands-on technical instruction, developing other instructors through train-the-trainer programs, and ensuring consistent, high-quality technical education across Anthropic's programs. The ideal candidate is an engineer who excels at teaching and mentoring other instructors, comfortable with coding, debugging, and adapting to diverse technical audiences. This is not primarily an instructional design role, but requires practical technical expertise and the ability to make complex concepts understandable.

Requirements

6+ years of relevant professional experience across software engineering, solutions engineering, developer advocacy, technical education, or another technically deep role.
3+ years of hands-on technical instruction, including teaching engineers in live environments both in person and remotely.
Production engineering experience. You have written and shipped production software and can engage credibly with experienced engineers on architecture, implementation, debugging, and technical tradeoffs.
Recent hands-on AI development. Within the past three years, you have built or debugged applications using LLM APIs, agents, tool use, MCP, or related technologies. You are comfortable with rapidly changing AI development tools and unfamiliar technical problems.
Instructor development experience. You have helped 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. You will work from our NYC office whenever an instructor-led program is in session there, typically around three days per week.
The role includes approximately 25% travel to San Francisco and, over time, Europe.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing or operating a train-the-trainer, instructor certification, or observer-calibration program.
A portfolio of sessions, labs, or courses you have designed and taught, plus material you created so others could teach it.
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 your 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 genuine commitment to building and deploying it responsibly.

Responsibilities

Deliver hands-on technical instruction across Anthropic’s onboarding, residency, and technical enablement programs, in person in New York and remotely across European time zones.
Model excellent technical teaching for audiences ranging from small, interactive labs to 100+ technical practitioners, adapting to different levels of experience and technical depth.
Run train-the-trainer programs for internal experts, contract instructors, and training partners, using Anthropic’s practice-teach, feedback, and certification processes.
Coach and calibrate instructors through live and recorded observations, actionable feedback, and recommendations on readiness to teach specific content.
Partner with technical experts to turn subject matter expertise into effective sessions, labs, exercises, and demonstrations, and improve content based on what happens in the room.
Own instructional quality in assigned programs, staffing yourself and cleared instructors into East Coast program calendars and ensuring delivery meets Anthropic’s standards.
Use learner and instructor data to identify gaps in instruction and recommend improvements to curriculum, delivery, and instructor development.
Help evolve Anthropic’s technical instruction function, bringing your experience from the room into our standards, instructor development practices, and approach to scaling quality.