Staff Developer Advocate

Towards AI, Inc.; Palo Alto, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Towards AI, Inc. seeks a Staff Developer Advocate to champion the AI developer community and bridge internal teams with users to boost awareness and product adoption.

You will craft tutorials, code samples, and reference architectures, and present at events, workshops, and conferences to grow the ecosystem.

The role also focuses on gathering feedback to influence roadmaps and mentoring junior engineers, with emphasis on scalable cloud AI solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, Solutions Engineering, or Software Engineering in infra/AI/ML.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and modern AI/ML frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Create educational technical content: tutorials, code samples, reference architectures.
• Engage with the developer community via presentations, workshops, and conferences.
• Advocate for developer feedback to influence product roadmaps and mentor junior team members.

Skills

Python

CUDA

Product Management

Distributed Systems

Cloud Infrastructure

LLMs

AI Research

Inference

Security

Machine Learning

Testing

Deployment

Tools

HuggingFace

GPUs

Hubs

PyTorchLightning

Tensorflow

Job description

Professionalize your AI skills with.Master AI Engineering with the most practical and comprehensive at Towards AI Academy.# Staff Developer Advocate## Lightning AIPublished 02 Oct 2026## Role Highlights### Languages usedPythonCUDA### Key skillsProduct ManagementDistributed SystemsCloud InfrastructureLLMsAIResearchInferenceSecurityStartupAutomationMachine LearningTestingDeployment### Tools, Libraries and FrameworksHuggingFaceGPUsHubsPyTorchLightningTensorflow## DescriptionThe role involves serving as a technical champion and strategic partner for the community of AI builders. The individual will bridge the gap between internal engineering teams and the user community to drive awareness and product adoption. Responsibilities include creating educational technical content such as tutorials, code samples, and reference architectures. The position requires engaging with the developer community through presentations, workshops, and conferences. Additionally, the role involves advocating for developer feedback to influence product roadmaps and mentoring junior team members.## Required Qualifications and SkillsCandidates must possess at least 10 years of experience in Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, Solutions Engineering, or Software Engineering within infrastructure and AI/ML technologies. Deep hands-on expertise in Python, PyTorch, Tensorflow, and modern AI/ML frameworks is required. Applicants must demonstrate exceptional public speaking and technical storytelling abilities, including a track record of keynote speaking and community building. The role also requires experience in developing technology solutions and evangelizing end-to-end roadmaps for cloud computing.## DisclaimerDisclaimer: Job and company description information and some of the data fields may have been generated via GPT-4 summarisation and could contain inaccuracies. The full external job listing link should always be relied on for authoritative information.## DescriptionLightning AI was launched to reshape the development of artificial intelligence products for commercial and academic use. It focuses on simplicity, sustainability, modularity, and extensibility in machine learning development to support widespread AI adoption. Founded after creating and releasing PyTorch Lightning in 2019, the company enables users to build deployment-ready AI tools without needing to invest heavily in expert hires or infrastructure. Lightning AI has offices in New York City, Palo Alto, and London, with substantial backing from prominent investment firms.