Developer Advocate, Infrastructure

ZipRecruiter; Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing technology startup seeks an AI Developer Advocate to connect cutting-edge technology with the AI developer community. The role focuses on creating compelling use cases, engaging with developers, and shaping product evolution through community feedback, while promoting an open-source query engine for multimodal data processing.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid work environment

Competitive salary and equity package

Catered lunches and dinners

Monthly commuter benefits

Team bonding events

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Generous PTO policy

401(k) plan with employer match

Latest Apple equipment provided

Qualifications

• Solid foundation in AI/ML and experience working with multimodal data.
• Proficiency in distributed systems, data engineering, or backend infrastructure.
• Experience with open-source contributions is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Engage with engineers and researchers to develop solutions showcasing engine capabilities.
• Create technical content including tutorials and sample projects.
• Represent the technology at meetups and conferences.

Skills

AI/ML

Technical content creation

Public speaking

Simplifying complex ideas

Job description

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionAbout the Client

Our client is a fast-growing technology startup tackling one of the most pressing challenges in AI infrastructure: enabling large-scale, multimodal data processing. Their mission is to empower developers to work with complex datasets—including images, video, audio, and text—as easily as traditional structured data, without the need to build bespoke infrastructure. With a core team composed of industry veterans in high-performance computing and distributed systems, the company is building foundational tools that power mission-critical AI workloads across top-tier organizations.

About the Role

This is a unique opportunity to take the lead in connecting cutting-edge technology with the AI developer community. As an AI Developer Advocate, you’ll bridge the gap between users and engineering by creating compelling, real-world use cases and guiding product evolution. Your goal will be to evangelize a powerful open-source query engine designed for multimodal workloads, helping developers understand its capabilities and apply it to groundbreaking AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Developer Engagement: Partner with engineers, researchers, and product teams to uncover challenges in multimodal data processing and develop solutions that showcase the engine’s capabilities.

• Content Creation: Design technical content, tutorials, blog posts, videos, and sample projects that demonstrate advanced use-cases, such as:

  • Retrieval-augmented (RAG) systems integrating video, images, and documents

  • AI agents navigating and reasoning over large-scale, unstructured data

  • Pipelines for training foundation models with multimodal datasets

  • Complex workflows involving text, image, and video

  • Real-time ingestion pipelines for AI assistants consuming diverse media inputs

• Community Engagement: Represent the technology at meetups, conferences, and other community events to grow awareness and user adoption.

• Product Feedback: Relay insights from users to shape the product roadmap, ensuring features align with practical, high-impact use cases.

Requirements

• Solid foundation in AI/ML and experience working with multimodal data

• Proficiency in distributed systems, data engineering, or backend infrastructure

• Demonstrated success in creating technical content and public speaking

• Strong ability to simplify and communicate complex ideas to technical audiences

• Open-source contributor experience is a plus

Benefits & Why Join

• Flexible hybrid work environment (3 days/week onsite in San Francisco)

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity package

• Catered lunches and dinners for in-office team members

• Monthly commuter benefits

• Team bonding events, including regular game and poker nights

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

• Generous PTO policy

• 401(k) plan with employer match

• Latest Apple equipment and tools provided