Job Description
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Grant Engine is focused on securing funding for companies with the potential to significantly improve human health. They are seeking a Lead Technical Writer to develop high-stakes federal proposals for clinical AI and biomedical AI product development, ensuring technical narratives meet regulatory requirements and are reviewer-ready.
- Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior, client-facing proposal architect and lead writer for ARPA-H and related federal R&D pursuits in clinical AI/digital health
- Work directly with external clients (founders, clinicians, technical teams, consortium partners) to shape proposal strategy, technical framing, and reviewer-facing narrative
- Partner with internal proposal managers to align on timelines, deliverables, and submission workflows
- Draft all major proposal sections (not just outlines or edits), including technical narrative, significance/impact, innovation, work plan, milestones, evaluation/validation strategy, risk/mitigation, and related supporting sections as applicable
- Translate solicitation requirements and client inputs into clear, cohesive, submission-ready draft content
- Build proposal structure (workstreams/technical areas, dependencies, milestones, go/no-go logic) and write it into a reviewer-credible narrative
- Lead working sessions with external clients to extract technical and clinical content
- Iterate drafts directly with clients through review cycles, incorporating feedback while preserving clarity, coherence, and strategic positioning
- Resolve gaps, contradictions, and unsupported claims across sections
- Drive revision cycles toward a coherent, technically credible, reviewer-ready final proposal
- Skills
- PhD preferred. Master's Degree in biology, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, other life science, or relevant background, essential
- Minimum 1-year scientific writing experience, preferably in a healthcare/research/academic environment
- Proven experience writing grants, including NIH SBIR proposals, and/or experience with other funding mechanisms
- Demonstrated ability to shape technical narratives for AI/ML, digital health, and software-enabled healthcare technologies in real deployment contexts
- Strong fluency in AI/ML technology development, clinical validation concepts, implementation and deployment realities, and regulatory/authorization constraints
- Proven ability to operate under ambiguity and deadline pressure while improving rigor
- Exceptional verbal and written communications skills, command of the English language, strong presentation skills, diplomacy, perceptual objectivity, active listening, asking the right questions
- Understanding of healthcare industry trends, regulations, and emerging technologies associated with software and digital health
- Trustworthy, competent, client-focused, credible, proactive and responsive, values the team environment, and works with mutual respect
- Ability to handle changing priorities and multiple concurrent deadlines while maintaining high quality final products
- Personal and professional integrity, builds trust and rapport
- Benefits
- Bonus eligible.
- Company Overview
- Grant Engine is regularly identified as the platform for securing non-dilutive funding, directly with develop the story to secure funding. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://grantengine.com.
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