AI DevRel Lead & Community Architect (Hybrid)

Engg; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Health Coverage

Meaningful Equity

401(k) matching

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning, is seeking a Staff Developer Advocate to serve as a technical champion for the AI builders on Lighting AI. In this role, you will bridge the gap between our engineering teams and the AI builder community to drive awareness, education, and adoption through engaging technical content delivered across multiple channels.

This role reports to the CMO and partners closely with Product Management, Engineering and Marketing teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, Solutions Engineering, or Software Engineering within Infrastructure, developer tools, and AI/ML technologies.
• Deep hands-on expertise in Python, PyTorch, Tensorflow, and modern AI/ML frameworks (e.g., LLMs, distributed training, vLLM, Hugging Face, CUDA).
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, GPUs, distributed systems, deployment workflows for AI models, and agentic development.
• Exceptional public speaking and technical storytelling skills, with a proven track record of keynote speaking, podcasting, community building, and technical content creation for international audiences.
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple initiatives across different technical communities.
• Ability to travel (including internationally when needed).

Responsibilities

• Create high-impact, educational technical content, including deep-dive tutorials, code samples, technical blogs, and reference architectures showcasing Lightning AI products.
• Increase awareness of Lightning AI through engagement with the AI/ML and developer communities through keynote presentations, technical workshops, hackathons, and developer conferences.
• Champion the voice of the customer to product and engineering teams.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to advocate for developer feedback, influencing product roadmaps and developer experience (DX).
• Gaining industry recognition and credibility as a regular attendee and speaker at third party technology conferences, shows and press events.
• Mentor junior developer advocates and community managers, fostering a collaborative, high-performing DevRel culture rooted in technical depth and developer empathy.
• Establish experimentation and AI-native automation as core operating principles and develop testing frameworks across content form factors, channels, and topics.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

AI/ML frameworks

Job description

Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning, is seeking a Staff Developer Advocate to serve as a technical champion for the AI builders on Lighting AI. In this role, you will bridge the gap between our engineering teams and the AI builder community to drive awareness, education, and adoption through engaging technical content delivered across multiple channels.

This role reports to the CMO and partners closely with Product Management, Engineering and Marketing teams.