Developer Advocate, Physical AI

Avala; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Equity in the team

Unlimited PTO

FSA

Job summary

Avala in San Francisco is seeking a Developer Advocate to craft technical content, tutorials, and SDK integrations that help robotics and AV engineers leverage Avala's platform—from Python SDK to annotation API.

You will engage with the developer community, present at events, build demos and reference architectures, and provide actionable feedback to product and engineering teams to advance Physical AI data infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a developer advocate, solutions engineer, or technical content creator
• Strong programming skills in Python and TypeScript
• Experience with ML workflows, computer vision, or robotics
• Excellent public speaking and technical writing skills
• Active presence in developer communities

Responsibilities

• Create technical tutorials, sample code, and documentation for Avala's SDKs and APIs
• Present at conferences, meetups, and webinars on Physical AI data infrastructure
• Build demo applications and reference architectures for common AV/robotics workflows
• Engage with the developer community on GitHub, Discord, and forums
• Provide feedback from developers to the product and engineering teams
• Contribute to open-source tools and format specifications in the Physical AI ecosystem

Skills

Python

TypeScript

ML workflows

Computer vision

Robotics

Public speaking

Technical writing

Developer communities

Tools

ROS

MCAP

AV data formats

Job description

About This Role

Be the voice of Avala in the Physical AI developer community. You'll create technical content, build SDK integrations, and help robotics and AV engineers get the most out of Avala's platform — from the Python SDK to the annotation API.

What You'll Do:

• Create technical tutorials, sample code, and documentation for Avala's SDKs and APIs
• Present at conferences, meetups, and webinars on Physical AI data infrastructure
• Build demo applications and reference architectures for common AV/robotics workflows
• Engage with the developer community on GitHub, Discord, and forums
• Provide feedback from developers to the product and engineering teams
• Contribute to open-source tools and format specifications in the Physical AI ecosystem

Requirements:

• 3+ years as a developer advocate, solutions engineer, or technical content creator
• Strong programming skills in Python and TypeScript
• Experience with ML workflows, computer vision, or robotics
• Excellent public speaking and technical writing skills
• Active presence in developer communities

Nice to Have:

• Experience with ROS, MCAP, or autonomous vehicle data formats
• Background in computer vision or perception engineering
• Contributions to open-source ML or robotics projects

Python TypeScript Technical Writing Robotics

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the team building Fleet Learning Infrastructure for Physical AI
• Full health, dental, and vision coverage, plus FSA and unlimited PTO
• Work on the closed-loop data infrastructure that the next generation of autonomous systems learns from
• A team that built Tesla Autopilot's data infrastructure, now building something bigger