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Employment & Opportunities

Scientific Grant Writer role for grad students/postdocs - Grantscout, LLC

Grantscout specializes in helping innovative startups across diverse sectors (spanning AI, biotech, medtech / healthtech, deep tech, energy, etc.) secure non-dilutive funding for their R&D from federal, state, and private foundation sources such as NSF, NIH, DoW, DOE, USDA, DOC, ARPA-H, DARPA, BARDA.

Position Overview:
We are seeking skilled writers with strong academic backgrounds who enjoy the scientific grant writing process and who want to engage with a broad diversity of cutting-edge science. In this role, you will work directly with top scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs across a wide range of scientific disciplines, helping them meaningfully compete in the scientific funding landscape and transform their research ideas into compelling, fundable proposals.

Key Qualifications:
- Advanced degree (MS or PhD preferred) in a STEM field
- Exceptional written and oral scientific communication skills
- Experience synthesizing technical literature, identifying scientific gaps, and constructing compelling and logical scientific arguments.
- Self-directed work style with the ability to successfully manage multiple concurrent projects while adhering closely to external deadlines.

Specific Responsibilities:

- Help clients identify non-dilutive funding opportunities aligned with their technology
- Design and manage multi-opportunity, multi-agency funding pipelines.
- Plan, write, and submit competitive proposals across funding programs.
- Work closely with founders and technical teams to develop/refine proposals.
- Stay up-to-date on the funding landscape.

Compensation:
- Full-time and fully remote (based in Canada / US) 
- 80k - 110K CAD base salary + benefits + uncapped bonus tied to the proposals you win and firm performance.

Interested? Please send your CV + 1-3 page writing sample (such as a previous grant, manuscript, etc.) to careers@grantscout.com