Developer Relations & Advocacy
Engineers in this role serve as the bridge between AI infrastructure or platform companies and their developer communities, creating technical content, building hands-on demos, and gathering feedback to drive product adoption. They spend their days writing tutorials and guides, constructing sample applications that showcase real-world AI workloads, engaging directly with developers across community channels, and speaking at conferences to educate technical audiences. What distinguishes this role from marketing or product positions is its hands-on, builder-first approach—these engineers write production-quality code and maintain deep technical fluency with their company's products, translating complex AI capabilities into accessible learning experiences. Developer Relations typically sits within cross-functional teams that report to product, marketing, or engineering leadership, serving as the connective tissue that brings developer insights back to product teams while helping engineers and startups understand how to integrate AI infrastructure, models, or platforms into production systems.
Measured across 31 of 31 open postings.
This role is advertised at one level, so a single figure for the role would describe none of them. Experience and pay are the midpoints for each level on its own.
| Level | Share | Median years | Median pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 39%(12) | — | — |
A dash means too few postings stated it to report a midpoint at any level. Most companies do not publish a salary band, so pay is indicative rather than a market rate. 5 levels with fewer than 10 open postings are not shown.
“genuine, explicit interest in how frontier AI can revolutionize materials science”
“Experience deploying and operating production AI workloads, ideally inside an enterprise.”
“Strong understanding of the modern AI/ML developer ecosystem and how frameworks, libraries, infrastructure, models, tools, and communities fit together.”
“Living on the edge of agentic coding: You live and breathe cutting-edge agentic development. You're using the newest tools the week they land”
Requirements are a share of every open posting, so a role missing from this list is one where almost nobody asks. Work mode is different: many postings never say, so that figure counts only the ones that do. A posting stops being advertised when it is filled, cancelled or reorganised, so read the last figure as how long these stay on the market, not as time to hire.
Skills
What companies are looking for in this role.
Developer advocacy and technical content
Community program management
Content strategy and editorial planning
Customer education programs
Event program management
Product analytics & experimentation
Hands-on AI tool fluency
Category creation and zero-to-one GTM
AI-assisted content production
Agentic system research
Agent workflow design
Technical communication
Customer feedback synthesis
Technical team leadership and mentoring
Mentoring and code review
Rapid prototyping and iteration
Technology
The tools and technologies that define this role.
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31 open Developer Relations & Advocacy jobs across 20 companies.
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