
Arc Institute is a nonprofit biomedical research organization headquartered in Palo Alto, California, collaborating with Stanford University, UCSF, and UC Berkeley. It operates on a unique model providing fully funded, no-strings-attached multi-year support to scientists to pursue curiosity-driven research in complex diseases such as cancer, neurodegeneration, and immune dysfunction. The Institute invests heavily in developing experimental and computational technologies through dedicated Technology Centers focused on machine learning, genome engineering, cellular and animal disease models, and multi-omics. Arc aims to accelerate scientific progress and translate discoveries into patient impact by fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and long-term research agendas. It plans to scale to approximately 250 scientific personnel within three years, emphasizing innovative organizational models and translational infrastructure to optimize life sciences impact.

Arc Institute is a nonprofit biomedical research organization headquartered in Palo Alto, California, collaborating with Stanford University, UCSF, and UC Berkeley. It operates on a unique model providing fully funded, no-strings-attached multi-year support to scientists to pursue curiosity-driven research in complex diseases such as cancer, neurodegeneration, and immune dysfunction. The Institute invests heavily in developing experimental and computational technologies through dedicated Technology Centers focused on machine learning, genome engineering, cellular and animal disease models, and multi-omics. Arc aims to accelerate scientific progress and translate discoveries into patient impact by fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and long-term research agendas. It plans to scale to approximately 250 scientific personnel within three years, emphasizing innovative organizational models and translational infrastructure to optimize life sciences impact.
About Arc Institute
The Arc Institute is a new scientific institution conducting curiosity-driven basic science and technology development to understand and treat complex human diseases. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Arc is an independent research organization founded on the belief that many important research programs will be enabled by new institutional models. Arc operates in partnership with Stanford University, UCSF, and UC Berkeley.
While the prevailing university research model has yielded many tremendous successes, we believe in the importance of institutional experimentation as a way to make progress. These include:
Arc has scaled to nearly 300 people to date. With $650M+ in committed funding and a state of the art new lab facility in Palo Alto, Arc will continue to grow quickly in the coming years.
About the position
As Arc’s Scientific Writer, you'll serve as the bridge between Arc's world-class interdisciplinary research and its diverse audiences. You'll work collaboratively with Arc’s Core Investigators, Science Fellows, Innovation Investigators, and Tech Center researchers to ensure their work is accurately and compellingly communicated to other researchers, employees, and other Institute audiences. You’ll develop a deep understanding of Arc’s science, the Institute’s's goals, and where everything fits into the larger research ecosystem to prepare content that resonates with scientific readers. This is a hybrid onsite role, reporting to the Head of Communications.
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Requirements
The base salary range for this position is $110,250 - $135,500. These amounts reflect the range of base salary that the Institute reasonably would expect to pay a new hire or internal candidate for this position. The actual base compensation paid to any individual for this position may vary depending on factors such as experience, market conditions, education/training, skill level, and whether the compensation is internally equitable, and does not include bonuses, commissions, differential pay, other forms of compensation, or benefits. This position is also eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus, with the amount dependent on individual and institute performance factors.