Senior Developer Advocate, AI Content & Community

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$196K/yr – $240K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and scale the developer advocacy program by building polished demos, creating developer content, and engaging with the broader AI community.

  • Develop, demo, and document repeatable developer workflows
  • Engage with developers, influencers, and communities
  • Align content with product launches and ecosystem partnerships

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build polished agentic AI applications, reference demos, and repeatable developer workflows that showcase what developers can create with SambaCloud
  • Own a steady demo pipeline from concept and prototype through testing, packaging, documentation, recording, live delivery, and reuse by the field and community
  • Create original developer content across code repositories, videos, livestreams, tutorials, blog posts, social posts, and other developer-native formats
  • Serve as an authentic public voice for SambaNova across GitHub, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, community forums, meetups, hackathons, and conferences
  • Develop relationships with developer influencers, technical creators, open-source maintainers, and community leaders who can extend the reach and credibility of SambaNova’s work
  • Co-create demos, technical content, events, and social moments with creators and ecosystem partners
  • Translate inference, model serving, agent workflows, and platform capabilities into practical examples without sacrificing technical substance
  • Turn product launches, integrations, benchmarks, and technical proof points into compelling demos and developer stories
  • Engage directly with developers, answer questions, gather feedback, and bring recurring friction and feature requests back to Product and Engineering
  • Partner with Developer Relations, Product, Engineering, Product Marketing, Design, and Partner teams to align demos and content with priority use cases and launches

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in developer advocacy, software engineering, technical content creation, developer marketing, or a combination of these disciplines
  • Hands-on experience building with Python, APIs, large language models, and contemporary agent or orchestration frameworks
  • A substantial public portfolio of working demos, repositories, tutorials, talks, videos, livestreams, or substantive social content
  • A demonstrated ability to earn attention and engage a technical audience through developer communities and social platforms
  • Strong on-camera, live presentation, writing, and technical storytelling skills
  • Fluency in the AI developer ecosystem and genuine curiosity about new models, agent patterns, tools, and infrastructure tradeoffs
  • Ability to prototype quickly, troubleshoot live demos, learn in public, and respond constructively to technical feedback
  • Comfort owning an editorial and demo calendar and shipping consistently in a fast-moving environment

Preferred

  • Experience creating agentic AI demos, multimodal applications, or production-oriented reference implementations
  • Familiarity with OpenAI-compatible APIs, model evaluation, prompt caching, retrieval, tool use, and inference performance concepts
  • An established network or engaged presence among AI developers, technical creators, open-source projects, or developer communities
  • A track record of successful collaborations with developer influencers, technology partners, creators, or open-source maintainers
  • Experience hosting workshops, hackathons, meetups, panels, livestreams, or conference sessions
  • Video production or editing skills and an instinct for adapting one technical demo to multiple channels without turning it into hype

Benefits

  • Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits. We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution. We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care. Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.
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Welcome to SambaNova: Revolutionizing AI CapacityAt SambaNova, we're empowering developers, enterprises, governments, and data centers to unlock their full AI potential. Our full-stack infrastructure, from chips to models, enables lightning-fast performance, low power consumption, and high-efficiency computing.Our MissionTo give every developer, enterprise, government and data center absolute sovereignty over their own data, models and AI infrastructure – to future-proof the AI workloads that will power and scale tomorrow.Our TechnologyWe give our customers the optionality to experience SambaNova through the cloud or on-premise.Samba Cloud delivers the fastest inferences on the largest open source models like Llama 4 and DeepSeek. Developers can get started building in minutes with our OpenAI compatible APIs. All customers start on the developer tier and when they need more capacity can scale into our enterprise tier.SambaStack is our on-premise offering which includes the system, the platform, and foundation models. These components combine into a powerful technology stack that delivers unparalleled performance, ease of use, accuracy, data privacy, and the ability to power every use case across the world's largest organizations.SambaManaged is a modular and ready-to-deploy AI cloud designed to deliver unmatched efficiency for data centers and cloud service providers. This solution allows organizations to quickly deploy advanced AI inference services—without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades or specialized expertise—in as little as 90 days.At the heart of SambaNova innovation is the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU). Purpose built for AI workloads, the RDU takes advantage of a dataflow architecture and a three-tiered memory design. The three tiers of memory enable the platform to run hundreds of models on a single node and to switch between them in microseconds. In 2023, SambaNova released its 4th generation RDU chip, the SN40L.

Founded in 2017
San Jose, California, USA
405 employees (25 in marketing)
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1% CEO approval

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$196K/yr – $240K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (2% of company)
Median Tenure
1.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$2.5B
Last Raise
$1B
Series F

Funding History

  • Jul 2026
    Series F • $1B
  • Feb 2026
    Series E • $350M
  • Oct 2023
    Secondary Market

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
197.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.2%
Direct
39.8%
Referral
4.5%
Social
8.8%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~405

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Senior Developer Advocate, AI Content & Community

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