Head of Developer Relations

Moondream AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Parental leave

Relocation support

Equity

Job summary

Moondream AI in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Head of Developer Relations to lead hands-on developer engagement. You will build live demos, write tutorials, and actively assist developers while shaping the SDK experience and docs.

In this in-person role, you will own the developer relations strategy, present at events, and help hire teammates as the program scales. You will sit with the team to ensure real-world value and fast iteration.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping ML-powered demos or apps.
• Ability to write useful technical content.
• Experience growing a developer community.
• Ability to present to developers effectively.

Responsibilities

• Build a live demo that processes a video feed and a tutorial taking users from zero to prototype in ten minutes.
• Identify SDK or docs clarity issues and help fix them.
• Show up where developers are, online and in person, to engage and educate.
• Define the future direction of the developer experience and plan growth.

Skills

ML in production

Demo apps

Technical writing

Community building

Job description

Head of Developer Relations

San Francisco, CA - In-person - Full-time

Moondream builds vision models fast enough to process every frame of video in realtime. Developers use them for everything from video search to document understanding to robotics. Thousands of them already use Moondream. Most of them figured it out on their own, which is either a testament to the product or an indictment of our docs. Probably both.

We need someone who can close the gap between "this model is incredible" and "I shipped something with it last Tuesday." You'll be the first person doing this full-time. There is no team to inherit, no playbook to follow, no content calendar waiting for you. You'll write the first tutorial, build the first demo app, answer the first batch of questions in Discord, and then figure out what to do next based on what actually worked.

You Should Probably Apply If

• You've shipped code that uses ML models and can explain what's happening under the hood without reaching for buzzwords
• You can build a demo in the morning and give a talk about it that afternoon. You've done something like this before and it went well.
• You've written technical content that got traction because it was genuinely useful, not because it was promoted
• You have strong opinions about what makes a developer experience good, and you will not be polite about bad APIs
• You've grown a developer community before, not just moderated one

You Should Definitely Not Apply If

• You think dev rel is a branch of marketing that occasionally involves GitHub
• You haven't written code that runs in production in the last year
• Remote work is non-negotiable (we're in-person in San Francisco because dev rel works better when you're embedded with the team, not relaying messages)

What you'll actually do

• Build things. A demo that processes a live video feed, a tutorial that gets someone from zero to working prototype in ten minutes, a sample app that makes people say "wait, I can do that?"
• Tell the engineering team when the SDK is confusing, the error messages are bad, or the docs are wrong. Then probably fix the docs yourself.
• Show up where developers are, online and in person, and make them care about what we're building
• Figure out what this function should become and eventually hire people to help

Details

• Location: San Francisco, CA (in-person)
• Compensation: $145k-$185k + meaningful equity
• Benefits: Health, dental, vision, paid parental leave, relocation support