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Senior Developer Advocate

Vast.ai · San Francisco, CA · 1 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$160k–$200k/yrFull-time

About the role

Vast.ai seeks a Developer Advocate to own the developer community and technical content surrounding Vast. This role will help establish Vast as a key player in the developer ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • Be a real presence in our Discord, on Reddit, and on X, answering technical questions and setting the tone for how Vast communicates with developers.
  • Tutorials, example repos, and short videos demonstrating how to get something running on Vast.
  • Run our presence at hackathons, meetups, and conferences, including attending conferences in person.
  • Represent Vast at hackathons we're already sponsoring this summer.
  • Give a clear read on how other GPU and AI-infra companies show up with developers, and identify areas where we need improvement.

Requirements

You've been an engineer and can deploy a model and debug someone's setup. You've built a developer community before, ideally from scratch, and you enjoy interacting with and engaging with developers.

Qualifications

  • You like people more than most engineers do. You write, post, and talk, and you're comfortable showing up at events.
  • You run yourself. You don't rely on a content calendar and prefer to ship something rather than sit in a planning meeting.

Nice to have

  • Experience at a cloud, GPU, AI-infrastructure, or developer-tools company.
  • A project or tutorial that has traveled, gaining traction within the developer community.
  • A working knowledge of the AI/ML stack: model deployment, inference, fine-tuning.

What You Won't Own

  • Paid ads, brand and positioning strategy, the growth dashboard, or building SDKs and docs tooling.
  • The GPU hosts and suppliers' needs.

Who You Are

You've been an engineer and can deploy a model and debug someone's setup. You've built a developer community before, ideally from scratch, and you enjoy interacting with and engaging with developers.

Compensation and Location

  • $160,000–$200,000 base depending on experience, plus equity.
  • We're profitable, venture-backed, and growing, so the equity is a stake in a real company with a real valuation, not a lottery ticket.
  • Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay Area.
  • Travel and conference budget covered.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Meaningful early-stage equity.
  • Onsite meals, snacks, and close collaboration with founders/tech leaders.
  • Ambitious, fast-paced startup culture where initiative is rewarded.

Compensation Range

$160K - $200K

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