Engineering Editorial Lead

Anthropic$255K — $320K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of editorial experience in technical or complex content
  • Exceptional editing skills that maintain the author's voice
  • Curiosity about engineering and technology
  • Ability to collaborate with subject-matter experts
  • Strategic thinking about content cohesion
  • Comfortable navigating team dynamics and priorities

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain the editorial strategy for the engineering blog
  • Source and develop blog post ideas with engineering and research teams
  • Edit posts for clarity and technical accuracy while preserving authors' voices
  • Coach engineers through writing and revision processes
  • Coordinate with leadership for alignment with content and milestones
  • Collaborate with communication and marketing teams on promotion strategies
  • Engage with design teams to enhance technical content with visuals

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Inviting office space for collaboration
Full Job Description
About the role

Anthropic is looking for an Editorial Lead to own our engineering blog - one of the most visible ways we share how we build, what we learn, and why it matters. This is a role for someone who can bridge the gap between highly technical work and a broad, curious readership, turning complex engineering stories into posts that are rigorous, accessible, and compelling to read.

You'll work closely with engineering and research teams to identify the stories worth telling, then lead the editorial process from first draft through to publication. This isn't a role where you'll be writing everything yourself - a big part of the job is drawing out great writing from engineers who have deep expertise, and helping them turn that expertise into something the wider world can learn from.
Responsibilities
  • Define and maintain the editorial strategy for the engineering blog, including editorial calendar, content mix, and voice and tone guidelines
  • Source and develop blog post ideas in collaboration with engineering and research teams, identifying work that is well-suited to external publication
  • Edit posts end-to-end - from substantive feedback on structure and clarity through to line-level polish - while preserving technical accuracy and the author's voice
  • Coach and support engineers through the writing and revision process, helping produce strong drafts and building their confidence as contributors over time
  • Work with engineering leadership and developer relations to ensure published content is coordinated with other developer content, aligns with team priorities, and is appropriately timed relative to product launches, research releases, or other milestones
  • Coordinate with communications and marketing teams on promotion and audience strategy for published posts
  • Coordinate with design on diagrams and visuals that support technical content
You may be a good fit if you
  • Have 5+ years of editorial experience, with a strong track record of editing technical or complex content for broad audiences
  • Are an exceptionally skilled editor - someone who can improve a piece significantly without losing what made it worth reading in the first place
  • Have curiosity about engineering and technology, and can get up to speed quickly on new technical topics
  • Are skilled at drawing out ideas from subject-matter experts and helping them articulate their thinking clearly on the page
  • Can think strategically about content - not just individual posts, but how they collectively build a coherent picture of the organization's engineering work
  • Are comfortable working across teams and navigating the competing priorities that come with turning internal work into external-facing content
Strong candidates may also
  • Have a background in technical writing, developer communications, or engineering
  • Have experience running or significantly contributing to a technical blog or publication
  • Be familiar with the AI and machine learning landscape, and how technical work in this space is communicated to practitioner and general audiences
  • Have experience building or scaling editorial workflows - including processes for review, approval, and publication - within a fast-moving organisation
  • Have a portfolio that demonstrates editing work on technically dense material


The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$255,000-$320,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher and winner of the Turing Award. Anthropic's research is focused on developing AI systems that can learn from small amounts of data, reason about complex systems, and interact with humans in a natural way. The company is based in New York City and has a team of experienced AI researchers and engineers.
Learn more about Anthropic
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2019

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