Founding Developer Relations

The role

This is a hands-on technical individual-contributor role. You will build with LiteLLM and create resources like demos, tutorials, and technical guides to help developers deploy it in production.

What you will do

• Build and maintain runnable demos, sample applications, integrations, and reference architectures.
• Create technical guides, videos, workshops, launch demos, and deep dives.
• Engage directly with developers through GitHub, community channels, livestreams, meetups, and conferences.
• Partner with Product and Engineering on launches to provide examples and documentation.
• Identify recurring questions and friction to improve documentation and product decisions.
• Explore the AI developer ecosystem to build useful examples with models and frameworks.
• Use developer feedback and adoption data to decide on educational resources and community initiatives.
• Represent LiteLLM publicly through technical talks, workshops, videos, and podcasts.
• Establish Developer Relations priorities, operating cadence, and measures of success.
• Build a structured feedback loop between the developer community and Product and Engineering teams.

Required qualifications

• Experience in Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, software engineering, solutions engineering, or another highly technical developer-facing role.
• Can write working software and are comfortable building examples in Python.
• Can read an unfamiliar codebase, debug integrations, and reproduce issues.
• Exceptional technical communicator.
• Can create across multiple formats including sample applications, written tutorials, technical talks, workshops, and video.
• Comfortable being a visible external representative of a technical product and open-source project.
• Operate with high ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience with developer infrastructure, APIs, observability, security, cloud platforms, or open-source software.
• Familiarity with LLM application architecture and the challenges of operating AI systems in production.
• Experience with AI model providers, gateways, agent frameworks, MCP, Kubernetes, or enterprise AI platforms.
• Meaningful contributions to an open-source project.
• Experience building a technical audience through writing, videos, workshops, talks, or community participation.
• Experience establishing Developer Relations at an early-stage company.
• Experience working with platform engineers, infrastructure teams, or enterprise developers.
• An existing body of technical work such as applications, tutorials, talks, videos, documentation, or open-source contributions.

Benefits

• competitive compensation
• equity
• health benefits
• dental benefits
• vision benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match

About the company

LiteLLM is the open-source AI gateway used by developers and enterprises to access, manage, and govern LLMs through a unified interface.