Developer Relations Engineer

The role

This is a content and developer-experience role. You will create cookbooks, worked examples, benchmarks, and reference pipelines to teach researchers and training engineers how to use Spiral.

What you will do

• Write technical cookbooks and end-to-end examples
• Build and maintain reference pipelines against real datasets
• Produce credible benchmarks and honest writeups
• Act as a developer advocate internally to improve product, SDKs, and docs
• Answer user questions on GitHub, community channels, and conferences
• Represent Spiral at conferences
• Give the occasional talk or workshop

Required qualifications

• ML or training-infrastructure work experience
• Ability to write well about technical things
• Fluent in Python
• Comfortable in the PyTorch / Hugging Face / data-pipeline ecosystem
• Working mental model of GPUs, training loops, and bottlenecks
• Well connected in developer and/or AI communities

Nice to have

• Open-source contributions in relevant territory
• Experience with columnar / analytical data formats
• An existing audience among ML practitioners
• Prior DevRel, AI research, or research-engineering experience

About the company

Spiral builds a fast analytical database for multimodal, multi-rate data streams on top of the open source Vortex file format. The company is small, technical, and early.