Member of Technical Staff - Developer Relations

The role

You will act as the technical voice for Liquid AI within the developer community. You will build reference applications, create technical content, and host in-person events to demonstrate on-device AI deployment.

What you will do

• Be the technical voice in the community on Hugging Face, GitHub, Discord, and X
• Host hackathons, build nights, and technical workshops
• Submit talks, run booths, and demo at conferences
• Ship reference applications on edge hardware including iOS, Android, browser, Jetson, and NPUs
• Maintain integration recipes for llama.cpp, MLX, ONNX, ExecuTorch
• Write cookbooks for model fine-tuning, quantization, and deployment
• Create technical blog posts, demos, and benchmarks
• Maintain a friction log of developer pain points to inform product roadmaps

Required qualifications

• Hands-on LLM experience including fine-tuning and tokenizer debugging
• Track record of shipping to production or active community environments
• Fluency with PyTorch and Hugging Face (Transformers, PEFT, Datasets)
• Experience with at least one model serving framework (llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, ONNX Runtime, or TGI)
• Working understanding of quantization tradeoffs (GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ, INT8/INT4)
• Experience with on-device deployment (iOS, Android, embedded) or specialized work in the efficient-model ecosystem
• Experience in developer relations, developer advocacy, or community engineering
• Public portfolio of technical communication

Nice to have

• Open-source contributions to the inference or efficient-model tooling ecosystem
• Experience organizing or running hackathons, workshops, or developer events

Benefits

• Competitive base salary plus equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Company-wide Refill Days
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Paid leave for pregnancy, parenting, medical needs, and caring for family

About the company

Spun out of MIT CSAIL, Liquid AI builds general-purpose AI systems that run efficiently across deployment targets. They partner with enterprises across consumer electronics, automotive, life sciences, and financial services.