Sr. Developer Advocate, AI and Machine Learning
$149,200–$205,150 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Conduct hands-on advocacy in the Bay Area AI community by delivering talks, hosting meetups, and nurturing user groups to build genuine relationships with practitioners. Create production-ready reference implementations, starter kits, and demos for Genie Agents and MLflow that enable users to build, evaluate, and govern agentic systems. Develop high-quality educational content including videos, sample notebooks, tutorials, and courseware while answering questions in community forums and mentoring less-experienced advocates. Translate direct feedback from customers and the community into actionable insights for product and engineering teams to influence roadmap discussions.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of combined experience as a developer advocate and in a hands-on technical role — software engineer, ML engineer, data scientist, or solutions architect
- Professional experience actually building and operating AI or ML systems, not only presenting about them
- Subject matter knowledge of solving AI and ML problems at scale, including agent design, evaluation, and production operations
- Comprehensive understanding of the Databricks AI ecosystem, including Genie Agents, Genie, MLflow, and Databricks Unity AI Gateway
- Strong Python skills and fluency with the current agent and ML tooling landscape
- Based in the Bay Area and genuinely willing to be out in the community on a regular basis, including evenings
- Active participation and recognized leadership in AI and ML community forums, chats, and meetups — measured by what the community builds with your help, not by follower count
- A public portfolio of technical work: tutorials, talks, repositories, or sustained community contributions
- Proven track record in nurturing developer communities, organizing user groups, and facilitating meetups
- Exceptional communication skills, with a talent for articulating complex concepts through writing, teaching, video, and public speaking
- Deep empathy for developer needs, with the ability to craft engaging experiences across tutorials, notebooks, and community platforms
- Adept at collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to align community initiatives with product objectives
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