Senior Developer Advocate, China

Akamai Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate to bridge AI infrastructure and practical application development, with a focus on our China initiatives. You will collaborate with engineering and product teams to showcase capabilities while supporting a global developer ecosystem.

You will craft examples, tutorials, and content, document distributed edge systems, and engage with developers on GitHub, Discord, and at events.

Qualifications

• Strong AI engineering foundation with LLMs and open-source ecosystem.
• Hands-on experience with AI frameworks (PyTorch, Transformers, etc.).
• Proficient in running and optimizing GPU inference.
• Experience building distributed edge systems.
• Excellent communication and technical storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Develop clean, well-documented examples and projects for the developer community.
• Build and document distributed systems designed for global scale and high-performance inference at the edge.
• Create high-quality written and video content, including deep-dive YouTube tutorials and engaging short-form videos.
• Optimize and demonstrate LLM inference on GPUs within the open-source ecosystem.
• Lead community-building efforts with GitHub, Discord, and at industry events to foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Provide actionable feedback to internal engineering teams based on hands-on testing and developer insights.
• Represent the company through technical storytelling at conferences, workshops, and events in Asia and globally.

Skills

LLMs experience

Open-source AI

GPU inference

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

vLLM

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Pydandic AI

Crew AI

Job description

Are you a passionate developer who loves to enable and inspire others?

Do you enjoy turning complex technical challenges into clear, compelling narratives and practical code that inspires developer communities?

Join our innovative team

We are dedicated to growing our developer community by creating high-utility, use-case-based content and fostering meaningful technical connections. Our team ensures developers succeed by providing the samples, architectural guidance, and storytelling they need to build global-scale AI applications.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Developer Advocate in China, you will bridge the gap between deep AI infrastructure and practical application development. You will collaborate with engineering and product teams highlighting our technology's capabilities, while advocating the need for global AI developer ecosystem.

As Senior Developer Advocate, you will be responsible for:

• Developing clean, well-documented examples and projects for our developer community
• Building and documenting distributed systems designed for global scale and high-performance inference at the edge.
• Creating high-quality written and video content, including deep-dive YouTube tutorials and efficient, engaging short-form videos for social platforms.
• Optimizing and demonstrating LLM inference on GPUs, focusing on performance, latency, and efficiency within the open-source ecosystem.
• Leading community building efforts engaging with developers on GitHub, Discord, and at industry events to foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Providing actionable feedback to internal engineering teams based on hands-on testing and developer community insights.
• Representing the company through technical storytelling at conferences, workshops, live-coding sessions, and engaging with the developer community in Asia and globally.

Do what you love

• Have a good technical foundation in AI Engineering with significant experience in LLMs and the open-source AI ecosystem.
• Possess hands‑on experience with AI frameworks, i.e. PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, LangChain or LlamaIndex, Crew AI, Pydandic AI, or similar.
• Be proficient in running and optimizing inference on GPUs and deploying models in edge computing environments.
• Understand the principles of building and scaling distributed systems for global workloads.
• Be an expert communicator capable of producing high-production-value video content and clear technical documentation.
• Be a strategic thinker who can identify emerging AI trends and translate them into practical developer resources.
• Enjoy mentoring other developers and influencing technical roadmaps across cross‑functional organizations.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security : Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery : Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI : Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

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