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 current scientific funding landscape and transform their research ideas into compelling, fundable proposals.

Key Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD preferred) in a STEM field, with an ability to quickly learn and engage meaningfully with technical concepts outside your core area of expertise.
• Exceptional written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex scientific concepts into clear, persuasive proposal narratives that are tailored to specific audiences.
• Good oral communication skills to collaborate closely with founders, subject matter experts, federal program staff, and internal team members.
• 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.
• General familiarity with federal grant programs is preferred, but not required.

Specific Responsibilities

• Help clients identify non-dilutive funding opportunities aligned with their specific technology, providing strategic guidance on how to map scientific objectives to funding agency priorities and program-specific evaluation criteria.
• Design and manage multi-opportunity, multi-agency funding pipelines that maximize each client’s chances of securing non-dilutive funding.
• Plan, write, and submit competitive proposals across federal, state, and private foundation funding programs.
• Work closely with founders and technical teams to develop/refine proposal documents, such as project narratives, commercialization plans, and supporting documents.
• Stay up-to-date on funding program announcements and rapidly shifting agency priorities to provide topical information to clients.

Compensation & Benefits

• Full-time
• Fully remote (based in Canada / US)
• 80k - 110K CAD/70k - 80k USD 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.