Liquid AI

AI

MemberofTechnicalStaffDeveloperRelations

San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“Member of Technical Staff - Developer Relations at Liquid AI. Skills: LLMs, Developer Relations, On-device Deployment. Be the technical voice in the community. Live where LFM developers already are”

What You'll Achieve.

Ship working reference app; Developers adopt content; Ship often; Adapt quickly; Take on more ownership; Measurable lift in fine-tunes; Measurable lift in downloads; Measurable lift in downstream Spaces; External developers fork reference apps; External developers extend reference apps; External developers ship reference apps; Developer community shows up for events; Measurable community growth; Pain points are surfaced and fixed; OSS contributions land; Talks get accepted; Inbound developer interest grows

Industry & Context.

AI
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshooting sessions; Solve developer pain points

Eligibility Requirements

Travel for events, In-person presence at events

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Proven technical expertise, hands-on experience with LLMs, model fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, full fine-tuning, distillation), tokenizer debugging, track record of shipping to production or active community environments, Fluency with the modern AI stack, deep familiarity with PyTorch, Hugging Face (Transformers, PEFT, Datasets), model serving frameworks (llama. cpp, MLX, vLLM, ONNX Runtime, or TGI), understanding of quantization tradeoffs (GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ, INT8/INT4), Efficient model specialization, experience with on-device deployment (iOS, Android, embedded), specialized work within the efficient-model ecosystem (Phi, Gemma, Qwen, SmolLM, or distilled architectures)

Nice to Have

Prior developer relations, developer advocacy, community engineering experience, track record of public technical communication, conference talks, widely read technical writing, following among ML and edge developers, Active open-source contributions, inference or efficient-model tooling ecosystem (llama. cpp, MLX, ONNX, Hugging Face libraries), Experience organizing or running hackathons, workshops, developer events

What You'll Do.

Be the technical voice in the community

Live where LFM developers already are

Answer hard questions in public

Maintain Liquid's presence on the Hub

Amplify community fine-tunes

Represent Liquid at conferences

Demo in the hallway track

Partner with hackathon organizers

Build the on-device and adaptation story

Ship reference applications

Maintain integration recipes

Create content that earns trust

Deeply technical blog posts

Maintain a friction log

Bring signal into roadmap conversations

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with product team; Collaborate with model and platform teams

Communication Scope

Honest technical communicator; Public technical communication

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