First Developer Relations, AI/ML Startup

About Us

Our client aims to provide the state-of-the-art AI infrastructure to help teams around the world compete and succeed with AI. They are behind several popular open-source projects with thousands of developers worldwide. As the first DevRel of the team, you would have the opportunity to work with a team of talented engineers, influence the direction of a popular open source project, and have your work visible to a global audience.

What you’ll do

• Serve as the primary advocate of the company in the global developer community


• Build meaningful relationships with our users through regular check-ins, community events, and answering questions across Slack, Github, and social media


• Build awareness of our client through code samples, prototypes, blog posts, tutorials videos, outreach, and more.


• Represent the company at conferences and meetups online and in-person with the global developer communities


• Develop and implement strategies to grow and engage our open source community, including onboarding, community events, and outreach programs.


• Track and analyze community engagement metrics to measure growth, identify trends, and inform future strategies.


• Provide support and guidance to community members, assisting with technical and non-technical questions and issues.


• Improve the developer experience by providing user feedback to Engineering and influence product decisions


• Collaborate with engineering to structure roadmap and support community contributions

What We're Looking For

• Strong technical background, including 3+ years experience working as a developer advocate, software engineer, solutions engineer, or equivalent role.


• Demonstrated success in growing and improving developer communities against business goals


• Strong communication skills with the ability to convey complex ideas and information clearly and effectively to both technical and business audiences.


• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and trust with a diverse community of developers


• Strong presence in technical communities spanning GitHub, Medium, DZone, Stack Overflow, Reddit, LinkedIn, etc.


• Experience with open-source technologies, big data, machine learning, or artificial intelligence


• Understanding of best practices within developer communities, platforms, groups, and initiatives


• Experience giving technical presentations, talks, and fireside chats at events and conferences

What Gives You An Edge

Active contributor to open source projects, standardization working groups, or tech communities
Hands-on experience with machine learning workflows; training and deploying models at scale.

Location

This role is remote. There is an optional office in San Mateo.

Compensation: $100,000 - $150,000 base, equity, and benefits.

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