Developer Relations Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Developer Relations Engineer (AI): Building awareness and enabling developers to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize AI systems in production with an accent on creating high-quality technical content, product documentation, and community engagement. Focus on demonstrating LLM-based application development, fostering thought leadership, and translating community feedback into product insights.

Location: Candidates must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area or NYC to attend community events, though there is no daily office requirement.

Salary: $100,000 to $175,000 annually

Company

This company builds an AI and agent observability and evaluation platform to help engineers ship reliable, high performing applications with confidence, from early experimentation through large scale deployment.

What you will do

• Build awareness of the company’s products and thought leadership in AI evaluation and observability through various technical content formats.
• Create and maintain clear, high-quality product documentation, tutorials, and open-source demonstration repositories.
• Engage directly with the developer community at conferences, trade shows, meetups, and online channels.
• Translate community feedback into actionable insights to influence product roadmaps.
• Support marketing efforts by contributing technical source material for field marketing and SEO-focused content.
• Serve as an initial point of contact for developer questions and collaborate with product teams on feature explorations and technical proofs of concept.

Requirements

• Three or more years of experience in engineering or a highly technical developer relations role.
• Strong written and verbal technical communication skills demonstrated through public documentation, blog posts, talks, or videos.
• Current hands-on engineering experience, ideally shown through demos, sample projects, or open-source contributions.
• Working knowledge of modern LLM based application development including agents, retrieval augmented generation, and orchestration frameworks.
• A self-directed learner comfortable operating in ambiguity and iterating quickly in a startup environment.
• Willingness to attend occasional evening or weekend events locally, with infrequent short travel.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AI evaluation or observability tooling.
• Active participation in technical communities across forums, chat platforms, or developer-focused social networks.
• Experience maintaining or contributing to open-source projects in the AI or developer tooling space.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401k plan with generous paid time off and parental leave.
• Mental health and wellness benefits.
• Monthly stipend for home office or coworking expenses for remote employees.
• Commitment to building responsible AI and fostering an inclusive, respectful culture.
• Opportunities to contribute to initiatives that promote equity, community engagement, and ethical technology practices.