Developer Advocate, Mojo

Modular, a Qualcomm company; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premier insurance plans

Stock options

401k matching (up to 5%)

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Modular is seeking a Developer Advocate to champion Mojo, a new systems programming language for AI workloads. You will create tutorials, blog posts, and talks, leading workshops to move developers from curiosity to productivity in Mojo. This role involves engaging with a growing developer community and representing Modular at conferences.

We welcome candidates in the US or Canada, with hybrid work in Los Altos, CA, or remote options for senior staff. Travel to conferences and events is expected.

Qualifications

• Proven experience creating technical content for developer audiences.
• Strong Python skills, plus real systems programming experience in Mojo, C++, Rust, or similar.
• Ability to explain Mojo relative to Python, C++, Rust, and CUDA to developers.

Responsibilities

• Write technical educational content explaining Mojo's features, performance, and fit with Python, C++, Rust, and CUDA.
• Serve as voice of the developer community, feed feedback to Mojo engineering team, help shape roadmap.
• Establish, run and publish benchmarks comparing Mojo to other systems languages.
• Engage with communities on GitHub, Discord, Twitter/X, and LinkedIn, facilitating discussions and support.
• Represent Modular at conferences and events through talks, panels, and networking.
• Provide support to developers evaluating Mojo, including engineers at major corporations.
• Collaborate with Mojo teams to create tutorials, videos, and examples showing fast, safe systems code (including GPUs).
• Foster an inclusive environment for ML engineers and systems programmers learning Mojo.
• Contribute to Modular's developer relations, product, and marketing efforts.

Skills

Python

Mojo

C++

Rust

Technical content

Job description

About Modular

At Modular, we’re on a mission to revolutionize AI infrastructure by systematically rebuilding the AI software stack from the ground up. Our team, made up of industry leaders and experts, is building cutting‑edge, modular infrastructure that simplifies AI development and deployment. By rethinking the complexities of AI systems, we’re empowering everyone to unlock AI’s full potential and tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

At Modular, we’re on a mission to revolutionize AI infrastructure by systematically rebuilding the AI software stack from the ground up. Our team, made up of industry leaders and experts, is building cutting‑edge, modular infrastructure that simplifies AI development and deployment. By rethinking the complexities of AI systems, we’re empowering everyone to unlock AI’s full potential and tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

If you’re passionate about shaping the future of AI and creating tools that make a real difference in people’s lives, we want you on our team. You can read about our culture and careers to understand how we work and what we value.

About The Role

Modular is building Mojo: write like Python, run like C++. Mojo lets developers write fast code for diverse hardware, from CPUs to GPUs and beyond, without vendor lock‑in, in a language that’s both user friendly and memory safe. Mojo is built from the ground up to support modern AI workloads and is the best way to extend Python, so teams can move performance‑critical code into Mojo one function at a time. A growing community of ML engineers, systems programmers, and researchers is adopting Mojo to write fast, portable code for diverse hardware.

We are looking for a Developer Advocate to champion Mojo with our growing developer community. This means creating technical content including tutorials and blog posts as well as giving talks at conferences, leading workshops, and anything else that enables our developers to go from curious to productive in Mojo.

Join our world‑leading product team and help define how a new systems programming language grows.

LOCATION: Candidates based in the US or Canada are welcome to apply. To support growth and collaboration, those in earlier career stages work in a hybrid capacity at our Los Altos, CA. More senior staff can work out of our office in Los Altos, CA or remotely from home. Onboarding for new hires is conducted in‑person in our Los Altos, CA office.

Additionally, this role requires travel to conferences and developer events, which may be as often as once per month, as well as travel for team and company events (typically 2‑4 times per year).

What You Will Do

• Write technical educational content that explain Mojo's language features, performance characteristics, and where it fits alongside Python, C++, Rust, and CUDA.
• Act as the voice of the developer community internally, feeding language and tooling feedback back to the Mojo engineering team, shaping the language's roadmap.
• Establish, run and publish benchmarks comparing Mojo to other systems programming languages.
• Engage with the community across GitHub, Discord, Twitter/X, and LinkedIn by facilitating discussions, answering questions, and providing support.
• Represent Modular at conferences, summits, and industry events through presentations, panel discussions, and networking with industry professionals.
• Provide support and respond to questions from developers evaluating Mojo, including engineers at some of the world's largest corporations.
• Collaborate with the Mojo language and compiler teams to create tutorials, videos, and examples that show developers how to write fast, safe systems code, including on GPUs.
• Foster an inclusive and welcoming environment for ML engineers and systems programmers learning Mojo.
• Contribute to Modular's broader developer relations, product, and marketing strategies.

What Success Looks Like After 6 Months

• You've published a steady cadence of Mojo content that developers reference when learning the language.
• Code examples and cookbooks you've built are used, enjoyed, and shared by the community.
• You've identified and closed content gaps that were blocking developers from adopting Mojo.

What You Bring To The Table

• Demonstrable experience creating technical content for developer audiences. Send us a portfolio: blog posts, tutorials, videos, docs, or courses.
• Strong Python skills, plus real systems programming experience in Mojo, C++, Rust, or similar. You should be comfortable talking about memory management, SIMD, and parallelism, not just importing libraries that handle it for you.
• You understand where Mojo sits relative to Python, C++, Rust, and CUDA, and can speak credibly to developers coming from any of them about the trade-offs.
• You learn new tools fast and produce accurate content quickly. A language feature ships Tuesday, your tutorial goes out Thursday.
• You can record, edit, and publish a technical video without a production team. Clear audio, good pacing, technically correct, not necessarily polished.
• You write well. You explain complex ideas without losing precision, and you cut the filler.
• A growth and leadership mindset, with a collaborative attitude that seeks to learn more from our customers, team members, and the broader market.

Helpful, But Not Required

• Experience programming GPUs using Mojo, CUDA or ROCm.
• Familiarity with open source software development practices and communities
• Familiarity with the MAX Platform's inference and serving capabilities.
• Experience producing high‑quality videos covering technical topics.

What Modular Brings To The Table

• Amazing Team. We are a progressive and agile team with some of the industry’s best engineering and product leaders.
• World‑class Benefits. In order to attract the best, we need to offer the best. Premier insurance plans, up to 5% 401k matching, flexible paid time off, and more are available to you! Please note that specific benefit packages may vary based on your location.
• Competitive Compensation. We offer very strong compensation packages, including stock options. We want people to be focused on their best work and believe in tailoring compensation plans to meet the needs of our workforce.
• Team Building Events. We organize regular team onsites and local meetups in Los Altos, CA as well as different cities. Traveling 2‑4 times a year is expected for all roles.

Working at Modular will enable you to grow quickly as you work alongside incredibly motivated and talented people who have high standards, possess a growth mindset, and a purpose to truly change the world.

The estimated base salary range for this role to be performed in the US is $150,200.00 - $225,400.00 USD.

The estimated base salary range for this role to be performed in Canada is $111,500.00 - $167,300.00 CAD.

The salary for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of permissible, non‑discriminatory job‑related factors, which include but are not limited to education, training, work experience, business needs, or market demands. This range may be modified in the future. The total compensation for a candidate will also include annual target bonus, equity, and benefits, with equity making up a significant portion of your total compensation.

For candidates who fall outside of the listed requirements, we nevertheless encourage you to apply as we may have openings that lower/higher level than the ones advertised.