Community Engagement Lead

About Grafton Sciences

We’re building physical general intelligence — autonomous systems that can experiment, reason, and discover in the physical world. With deep technical roots and real-world progress at scale (e.g., a $42M NIH project), we’re pushing the frontier of physical AI. Joining us means inventing from first principles, owning real systems end-to-end, and helping build a capability the world has never had before.

About Grafton Sciences

We’re building AI systems with general physical ability - the capacity to experiment, engineer, or manufacture anything. We believe achieving this is a key step towards building superintelligence. With deep technical roots and real-world progress at scale (e.g., a 42M dollar NIH project), we’re pushing the frontier of physical AI. Joining us means inventing from first principles, owning real systems end-to-end, and helping build a capability the world has never had before.

About the Role

We’re seeking a Community Engagement and Participant Representation Lead to lead accessibility, outreach, and population reach for an NIH-funded ARPA-H program. You will ensure that screening tools and clinical studies meaningfully engage the communities most affected by cancer and that participant enrollment reflects the populations the program is designed to serve. This includes leading community discovery work, shaping patient-centered design inputs, developing federal-ready enrollment plans, and guiding strategies that support ethical, representative participation. You will also onboard and support an Outreach Coordinator and deliver participant-access milestones across all phases of the program.

Responsibilities

• Lead community engagement and participant-access strategy for the program, ensuring broad reach and representative enrollment.

• Conduct listening sessions to understand barriers, motivators, and design needs across communities with high cancer burden.

• Establish and manage a Cancer Outreach Program to support product feedback, CX and UX insights, and community trust in screening workflows.

• Develop core accessibility deliverables, including enrollment approach plans, affordability analyses, and annual accessibility updates.

• Ensure recruitment and retention practices ethically support participant representation aligned with federal expectations for clinical studies.

• Build strong relationships with community organizations, local leaders, health systems, and trusted partners in underserved regions.

• Onboard and mentor an Outreach Coordinator, aligning their work with program-level engagement goals.

• Track and communicate progress toward participant-access and representation metrics across all program phases.

• Collaborate with clinical, research, product, regulatory, and operations teams to embed community insights and accessibility considerations into study design and deployment.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a social science or related field (e.g., Psychology, Sociology, Public Health, Education, Social Work, Public Administration, Epidemiology).

• At least 5 years of experience in community engagement, outreach, or participant recruitment.

• Proven success recruiting and retaining representative populations in research or clinical programs.

• Strong grounding in community-engaged research, human-centered design, and equitable recruitment practices.

• Experience working with historically underserved or hard-to-reach communities and building long-term trust.

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across community and institutional partners.

• Ability to operate in fast-moving, interdisciplinary environments and deliver outcomes tied to measurable participant-access goals.

Above all, we look for candidates who can demonstrate world-class excellence.

Compensation

We offer competitive salary, meaningful equity, and benefits.