Developer Advocate, Infrastructure

Job Description

Job Description

About the Client

Our client is a fast-growing technology startup tackling one of the most pressing challenges in AI infrastructure : enabling large-scale, multimodal data processing. Their mission is to empower developers to work with complex datasets—including images, video, audio, and text—as easily as traditional structured data, without the need to build bespoke infrastructure. With a core team composed of industry veterans in high-performance computing and distributed systems, the company is building foundational tools that power mission-critical AI workloads across top-tier organizations.

About the Role

This is a unique opportunity to take the lead in connecting cutting-edge technology with the AI developer community. As an AI Developer Advocate , you’ll bridge the gap between users and engineering by creating compelling, real-world use cases and guiding product evolution. Your goal will be to evangelize a powerful open-source query engine designed for multimodal workloads, helping developers understand its capabilities and apply it to groundbreaking AI systems.

Responsibilities

Developer Engagement : Partner with engineers, researchers, and product teams to uncover challenges in multimodal data processing and develop solutions that showcase the engine’s capabilities.

Content Creation : Design technical content, tutorials, blog posts, videos, and sample projects that demonstrate advanced use-cases, such as :

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems integrating video, images, and documents

AI agents navigating and reasoning over large-scale, unstructured data

Pipelines for training foundation models with multimodal datasets

Complex workflows involving text, image, and video generation

Real-time ingestion pipelines for AI assistants consuming diverse media inputs

Community Engagement : Represent the technology at meetups, conferences, and other community events to grow awareness and user adoption.

Product Feedback : Relay insights from users to shape the product roadmap, ensuring features align with practical, high-impact use cases.

Requirements

Solid foundation in AI / ML and experience working with multimodal data

Proficiency in distributed systems, data engineering, or backend infrastructure

Demonstrated success in creating technical content and public speaking

Strong ability to simplify and communicate complex ideas to technical audiences

Open-source contributor experience is a plus

Benefits & Why Join

Flexible hybrid work environment (3 days / week onsite in San Francisco)

Competitive salary and meaningful equity package

Catered lunches and dinners for in-office team members

Monthly commuter benefits

Team bonding events, including regular game and poker nights

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Generous PTO policy

401(k) plan with employer match

Latest Apple equipment and tools provided