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Developer Advocate

San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull TimePosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

  • LLMs
  • AI
  • System One Models
  • developer community
  • developer experience
  • SDKs
  • APIs
  • Discord
  • demos
  • tutorials

Nice to have

  • existing reputation
  • standing among developers

Role summary

TypeSafe AI, an AI lab focused on building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, is seeking a Developer Advocate. This role involves defining the company's voice within the developer community, representing TypeSafe through talks and demos, and owning the developer experience across documentation, tutorials, and APIs. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of LLMs, the AI market, and developer needs, coupled with strong empathy and communication skills. A background of at least 3 years as a Software Engineer or Developer Advocate is required. The position is based in San Francisco and offers a competitive salary and equity.

About TypeSafe

We’re building prod, not god. TypeSafe is an AI lab pushing frontier model intelligence in a new direction, starting with System One Models. We combine the reasoning of LLMs with the reliability of code, for truly trustworthy AI. Our first model, Jev, launched in September 2026.

While others chase leaderboards, we’re rebuilding the LLM stack from first principles to make models smarter and also dependable enough to run in production. We’re a small, fast team backed by an $870M Series A led by a16z. Made in SF, with love. Come join the frontier.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Help define TypeSafe's voice with the developer community and grow our visibility, trust, and adoption

  • Represent TypeSafe and the future of System One AI through talks, demos, community participation, and partnerships

  • Own the developer experience across docs, tutorials, and SDK/API references

  • Engage with the developer community via our Discord, in-person events, conferences, and whatever else the future holds

  • Build deep understanding of our developer community; synthesize their needs and concerns to be the voice of our developers inside the company

  • Design and run developer programs (e.g., early access, betas, red-teaming, bug bounties)

  • Collaborate with product, marketing, engineering, operations, and leadership

  • Create demos, tutorials, cookbooks, docs, and collateral that help developers understand and learn to use TypeSafe

  • Plan and execute developer marketing moments: webinars, meetups, hackathons, conference talks, and workshops

We are looking for people who

  • Have fluent understanding of LLMs, AI market, and developer needs in LLM performance, as well as major developer ecosystems and APIs

  • Have deep developer empathy; are excellent at listening and synthesizing from feedback, and have experience running usability tests

  • Care deeply about our mission and are driven to translate it into real-world impact

  • Are skillful communicators, both in speech and written forms

  • Have >3 yrs experience as a SWE or developer advocate

  • Existing reputation and standing among developers a huge plus

Life at TypeSafe

We're a small, flat, close-knit team dedicated to real-world impact preparing the world for Transformative AI. Our team works fully in-person in our San Francisco office near Embarcadero station. We love what we do and care about our work a lot.

We strive for excellence and craftsmanship and won't stop until we get there. When the team wins, we all win, and we enjoy collaborating and inspiring each other to grow as a team and as individuals.

We also value emotional honesty, kindness, and bringing your whole self to work. We build machines; we don't try to be machines.

We want you to be able to do the most impactful work of your career at TypeSafe and help define our future as a company.

We provide

  • 100% covered health insurance

  • Daily lunch and dinner

  • Visa sponsorships

  • 401K plans

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