Developer Relations Engineer
Applied Compute9 hours ago
Base Salary
$175k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build runnable demos, cookbooks, example applications, and reproducible technical resources with code, sample data, expected results, and explanations.
- Explain technical methods, results, tradeoffs, and limitations through articles, walkthrough videos, and interactive demos.
- Own technical-content distribution through X, GitHub, developer communities, and collaborations, and experiment with topics and formats.
- Educate developers through workshops, livestreams, office hours, events, and a tutorial series covering evaluation, training, and deployment.
- Help organizations set up AC2, run evaluations and training jobs, interpret results, and convert recurring questions into reusable resources.
- Improve quickstarts and troubleshooting guides and bring reproducible developer-experience issues to engineering for prioritization.
- Define DevRel strategy and standards and help build the function, including hiring and leading a team as it grows.
Requirements
- Strong engineering background with the ability to independently build, test, and debug useful demos and example applications.
- Hands-on experience fine-tuning and evaluating language models, including explaining training setups and evaluation design.
- Track record of clear technical writing through articles, tutorials, documentation, or similar developer-focused work.
- Experience distributing technical work to developers and interest in experimenting with new ways to reach and teach them.
- Ability to receive technical feedback, acknowledge uncertainty, and help developers work through problems.
- Judgment and initiative to set priorities, take projects from idea to publication, and build a scalable function.
- Preferred: established audience among AI developers, particularly on X/Twitter.
- Preferred: previous founder or early-stage startup experience.
Benefits
- U.S. base salary range of $175,000–$250,000 plus meaningful equity and a comprehensive benefits package.
- Role is full-time and based in San Francisco, with work from the Mission office.
- 100% employer-paid health insurance for the employee and family.
- Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave.
- Daily lunches and dinners.
- Transportation and relocation support.
- 5% 401(k) match.
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About Applied Compute
Applied Compute builds enterprise AI systems that turn internal knowledge into custom models and deployable agent workforces. Its platform and forward-deployed teams create evals, train models on proprietary data, and run continually learning agents inside customer environments. The company is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, serving enterprises that want in-house, domain-specific AI rather than generic foundation models.