AI Developer Relations & Community Leader

Ifm Us; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Bonus

401K Plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Life insurance & disability

Job summary

Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) seeks a Developer Relations & Community Manager to empower developers to discover and build with IFM’s foundation models, including K2, JAIS, and PAN. You’ll be the hands-on technical voice across GitHub, Discord, and Hugging Face, shaping resources and programs that move developers from download to first working results.

You will collaborate with research, engineering, product, marketing, and communications to grow adoption, support open-source communities,

Qualifications

• Five+ years in developer relations, developer experience, or technical product or engineering roles with a track record of shipping content or tools that measurably grew a developer ecosystem.
• Strong technical credibility; able to explain AI/ML concepts and API ideas to varied audiences.
• Hands-on technical ability; can write production-quality code demos and review samples critically.
• Proven ability to influence research, product, engineering, and marketing teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Define how IFM measures developer success using adoption, usage, downloads, and platform integrations.
• Plan the developer experience for every model release including quickstarts, demos, and guides.
• Build onboarding and engagement across IFM's GitHub, Discord, and Hugging Face channels; answer technical questions.
• Lead and participate in developer events, workshops, hackathons, and community activities.
• Identify, recruit, and recognize strong contributors and projects.
• Create production-quality sample applications, tutorials, documentation, and integration guides.
• Partner with marketing on developer campaigns and education through videos, blogs, webinars, and workshops.
• Collaborate with engineers to remove friction from download to first working result.

Skills

Developer relations

Technical credibility

Hands-on coding

Influence without authority

Tools

GitHub

Discord

Hugging Face

Job description

Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) seeks a Developer Relations & Community Manager to empower developers to discover and build with IFM’s foundation models, including K2, JAIS, and PAN. You’ll be the hands-on technical voice across GitHub, Discord, and Hugging Face, shaping resources and programs that move developers from download to first working results.

You will collaborate with research, engineering, product, marketing, and communications to grow adoption, support open-source communities,