5+ years of combined engineering and developer-facing experience, with real time in both. For example, several years shipping production software plus meaningful time in DevRel, developer education, technical writing, or solutions engineering. We're flexible on the ratio and inflexible on the requirement that both are genuinely there
You can code and read diffs. Strong Python; comfortable in TypeScript/JavaScript. You've built and deployed applications yourself, and you can review someone else's sample and tell whether it's good
Hands-on with the modern AI stack. You've worked with LLM APIs in production, built with at least one agent framework, and have personally fine-tuned, evaluated, and deployed a model, not just read about it. You understand what inference latency, throughput, and cost actually depend on
A public track record. Technical writing, talks, videos, open-source work, or a following you earned. Something we can go read or watch that shows you can explain hard things well to engineers
Demonstrated speaking ability. You've presented at conferences, meetups, or workshops, and you're comfortable doing it on short notice about something that shipped last week
Learning velocity. You can go from "this paper came out Tuesday" to "here's a working implementation and an honest assessment" quickly, and you have a system for staying current rather than relying on luck
Ownership instinct. You pick your own topics, scope your own projects end to end, and don't need a content calendar handed to you. This role is early enough that you'll be defining the work as often as executing it
Open-source contributions or maintainership in the AI/ML ecosystem, including inference engines, model libraries, agent frameworks, and evaluation tooling
Depth in inference optimization, serving architecture, post-training, or evaluation methodology
You've built something that outlived your direct involvement: a content operation, a launch process, an events playbook, or a community program
Comfort making video
Existing relationships with AI research or open-model communities
You use frontier coding agents in your daily work and have opinions about where they help and where they don't
Experience being early on a DevRel team and helping establish how it operates