Senior ML/AI Engineer & Technical DevRel Advocate

Empat; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Relocation assistance

In-office collaboration at SF cowork/“

Job summary

Empat is seeking a Senior ML/AI Engineer with strong Technical DevRel capabilities to join the San Francisco team full-time. The role blends hands-on ML engineering with developer relations, demos, and community engagement, helping shape product and ecosystem.

You will work hybrid, 2–3 days in-person in San Francisco, collaborating with the founder and external partners to build demos, integrations, and practical AI use cases that showcase the technology.

Qualifications

• Senior-level ML/AI Engineering background with several years of hands-on experience in machine learning or advanced AI engineering.
• Strong software engineering skills and ability to independently build production-quality solutions, prototypes, integrations, and demos.
• Practical experience with production ML systems, rather than primarily consuming third-party LLM APIs.
• Strong understanding of model inference and how ML models are deployed, served, optimized, and used in production environments.
• Experience in small models, model inference, post-training, embeddings, vector search, information retrieval, reranking, or hybrid retrieval/recommendation systems.
• Ability to understand a complex ML product deeply enough to contribute to core engineering and credibly explain its architecture and value.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the core product (approximately 25% of the role), staying hands-on and deeply involved enough to understand the technology and participate credibly in engineering discussions.
• Drive highly technical Developer Relations activities (approximately 75% of the role).
• Work directly with external technology partners, including model creators, database companies, infrastructure providers, and other AI ecosystem companies
• Design and build technical demos, integrations, examples, and reference implementations with partners
• Develop practical use cases demonstrating how the company’s technology can be integrated into real-world AI products and infrastructure
• Write technical articles, tutorials, documentation, and other developer-facing content
• Record technical demos and videos
• Lead or participate in technical webinars and workshops
• Speak at conferences, meetups, and other AI/developer events
• Participate in technical co-marketing initiatives with ecosystem partners
• Engage with the open-source and developer community from a deeply technical perspective
• Explain the company’s technology and underlying ML concepts to engineers, developers, partners, and other technical audiences
• Bring feedback and insights from developers and partners back into the product and engineering process
• Represent the company credibly within the broader ML/AI engineering ecosystem

Skills

Machine learning

Software engineering

DevRel

Public speaking

English communication

Technical demos

Python

Tools

GPU infrastructure

Model serving

Vector search

Transformers

Job description

Empat is seeking a Senior ML/AI Engineer with strong Technical DevRel capabilities to join the San Francisco team full-time. The role blends hands-on ML engineering with developer relations, demos, and community engagement, helping shape product and ecosystem.

You will work hybrid, 2–3 days in-person in San Francisco, collaborating with the founder and external partners to build demos, integrations, and practical AI use cases that showcase the technology.