Lightning AI
Staff Developer Advocate
$190K–$230K
San Francisco, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years; accepted backgrounds include Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, Solutions Engineering, or Software Engineering.
About the job
Serves as a technical champion for Lightning AI by creating technical content, engaging AI/ML developer communities, and bringing developer feedback to product and engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Create tutorials, code samples, technical blogs, and reference architectures showcasing Lightning AI products.
- Build awareness through conference talks, workshops, hackathons, and other community engagement.
- Advocate for developer feedback, mentor junior advocates, and develop AI-native experimentation and content testing practices.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience in Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, Solutions Engineering, or Software Engineering within infrastructure, developer tools, and AI/ML technologies.
- Hands-on expertise in Python, PyTorch, Tensorflow, and modern AI/ML frameworks; understanding of cloud infrastructure, GPUs, distributed systems, AI model deployment, and agentic development.
- Proven public speaking, technical storytelling, community-building, and technical-content skills for international audiences.
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps for cloud computing; ability to travel internationally when needed.
Pay
$190,000 — $230,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Python, PyTorch, Tensorflow, LLMs, distributed training, vLLM, Hugging Face, CUDA
AI focus
Advocates for AI/ML products and developer workflows; creates AI/ML technical content and establishes AI-native automation and experimentation practices.
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