Principal Developer Relations Engineer - Venture Studio

Moonsong Labs; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering company at the forefront of Web3 and AI technologies as a Developer Relations Lead. This exciting role involves bridging the gap between development teams and a technical audience, ensuring that developer needs are understood and addressed. You'll leverage your hands-on engineering experience to engage with the developer community, create educational content, and shape the future of innovative projects. With a focus on autonomy and collaboration, you'll play a crucial role in driving product development and enhancing user experience. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Benefits

Flexible vacation policy

Health and Dental plans

Direct access to senior leadership

Continuous learning and development

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in software engineering or developer relations.
• Strong understanding of Web3 and AI technologies.
• Ability to explain complex concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Engage with developers to understand their needs and challenges.
• Create content that explains core concepts from new projects.
• Document developer feedback and support product development.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Developer relations

Web3 infrastructure knowledge

AI technologies knowledge

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Community engagement

Education

Technical Undergraduate Degree

Masters Degree

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Typescript

Python

Rust

Job description

About Moonsong Labs

Moonsong Labs is a growing software development company at the intersection of Web3 and AI which includes engineering services and venture studio lines of business. The venture studio focuses on building software projects such as infrastructure, tooling, and protocols targeting devs as the customer. Examples of our work include the project Moonbeam, a blockchain that implements an Ethereum compatible environment and natively supports cross chain use cases. Tanssi, an infrastructure protocol designed to make launching decentralized AVSes easier on Ethereum. And Kluster AI, a decentralized large AI model inference and fine tuning platform.

The Venture Studio team

We believe we are at a significant inflection point in technology where AI and web3 are both set to disrupt the way we work and interact with one another and we want to position ourselves right at the intersection of these two technologies.

Our Venture Studio team is focused on investigating, researching, designing, and building new solutions to help drive web3 and Machine learning user adoption and improve scalability, usability, and user experiences with the ultimate aim of launching each product as a stand alone company to add to our growing network of Moonsong Labs portfolio companies.

Your Role

We have a newly created role for a Developer Relations Lead to join the Moonsong Labs Venture Studio team to serve as the bridge between our Venture Studio research and development team and a highly technical customer base. The Developer Relations Lead is a hands-on role within the Venture Studio responsible for understanding developer needs, use cases, and scenarios and bringing that customer driven knowledge back to the Venture Studio R&D team. At the same time, they will be responsible for distilling, explaining, and demonstrating key ideas from new Venture Studio projects to an audience of developers. And showing how new ideas from the Venture Studio could be used as solutions to uncovered needs and challenges. Ultimately, the Developer Relations Lead should enable more frequent and earlier developer interaction that will help improve product development, features, and roadmaps. The purpose of this role is to engage with developers to inform and get feedback on Venture Studio projects in the development process, to ensure a good product market fit.

The ideal candidate has experience as a hands on software engineer with Web3 and AI domain knowledge, experience as a developer relations engineer for a Web3 or AI infrastructure project, experience as a solutions architect that can probe and ask the right questions, or experience defining technical strategies. A hands on coding and technical background is key for this role, but the role also has a significant outward facing and communication component engaging with developers, and defining technical solutions. The ability to explain complex technical concepts in an easy to understand way is a core requirement for the position through creating content, live demonstrations and presentations, and being the voice of the customer to our core Web3 and AI engineering teams.

You will have the opportunity to shape and develop the developer relations function of a leading company in Web3 and AI space. We foster a culture of autonomy and taking action so we expect you to bring your ideas, experience, and knowledge to help us create lasting solutions.

This role offers the unique opportunity to join a company that is strategically positioned at the leading edge of the two most important technology trends in the market today. Reach out to us if you are interested in helping to drive a future, where blockchains and AI enable new, software native, and decentralized ways of coordinating and automating economic activity.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5-10 years relevant experience as a hands on software engineer, developer, or developer relations engineer.
• Experience engaging with developers to understand needs, provide guidance and support, grow developer communities, and propose technical solutions.
• Knowledge of Web3 infrastructure and AI technologies.
• Knowledge of Ethereum, EVM, and L2s. Knowledge of Solana / SVM is a plus.
• Knowledge of Machine Learning & Deep Learning: Strong understanding of LLMs, ML/DL fundamentals, fine-tuning, RAG techniques, and hands-on experience with frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and vector databases.
• Knowledge of Agent-Based System and Frameworks: Experience with autonomous agent architectures, LLM-based workflows, function calling, frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, Smolagent,...)
• Hands-on coding experience in Typescript and Python. Experience with Rust is a plus.
• Good writing skills with an ability to present and explain complex technical concepts and issues in a clear and accessible way to both technical and non-technical audiences. Demonstrable portfolio of blogs, presentations, and other content supporting this a big plus.
• Good attention to detail while working well under pressure.
• Experience creating, managing, and supporting developer hackathons is a plus.
• Outgoing, personable, energized by external interactions.
• Technical Undergraduate or Masters Degree.

What you'll do:

• Creating blogs, presentations, and other social content that distills, explains, and educates technical and non-technical audiences on core concepts and ideas from new Venture Studio projects.
• Engaging with developers to understand their use cases and challenges, and mapping solutions and platform capabilities to those scenarios.
• Documenting and bringing developer feedback and use cases back to the venture studio engineering team.
• Being the voice of the developer in the Venture Studio new project development process from ideation to development and market validation.
• Creating developer documentation, demos, code examples, and tutorials for new projects and tools as necessary.
• Working closely with Product, Engineering, Biz Dev, and the Executive Team in Venture Studio project ideation and development.
• Supporting Marketing efforts around new venture studio projects from a content and community engagement perspective, including helping to build developer communities.
• Attending conferences and other events to evangelize venture studio projects to technical audiences, to build awareness, and to establish MSL thought leadership.
• Establishing Developer Relations best practices for Moonsong Labs.

What you'll bring:

• 5-10 years relevant experience as a hands on software engineer, developer, or developer relations engineer.
• Experience engaging with developers to understand needs, provide guidance and support, grow developer communities, and propose technical solutions.
• Knowledge of Web3 infrastructure and AI technologies.
• Knowledge of Ethereum, EVM, and L2s. Knowledge of Solana / SVM is a plus.
• Knowledge of Machine Learning & Deep Learning: Strong understanding of LLMs, ML/DL fundamentals, fine-tuning, RAG techniques, and hands-on experience with frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and vector databases.
• Knowledge of Agent-Based System and Frameworks: Experience with autonomous agent architectures, LLM-based workflows, function calling, frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, Smolagent,...)
• Hands-on coding experience in Typescript and Python. Experience with Rust is a plus.
• Good writing skills with an ability to present and explain complex technical concepts and issues in a clear and accessible way to both technical and non-technical audiences. Demonstrable portfolio of blogs, presentations, and other content supporting this a big plus.
• Good attention to detail while working well under pressure.
• Experience creating, managing, and supporting developer hackathons is a plus.
• Outgoing, personable, energized by external interactions.
• Technical Undergraduate or Masters Degree.

Perks and benefits:

• 100% Remote
• Flexible vacation policy
• Health and Dental plans (for US based employees)
• Direct line of access to Managing Partners and senior leadership; A flat organizational structure and the camaraderie of working alongside committed professionals focused on providing dedicated mentorship, respectful feedback, and career advancement
• Continuous learning & development

Ready to Shape the Future? Join Us Today!

Equal Opportunity is the law, and at Moonsong Labs, we are ardently committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let us know.