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title: 'AI Builder Advocate at Thread AI'
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# AI Builder Advocate at Thread AI

- **Company:** Thread AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thread-ai/f652f58c-6a4b-47da-a9de-d3948134829f

## Job description

## About Thread AI

Thread AI is building the AI-native workflow orchestration engine for the enterprise. Our platform, Lemma, makes infrastructure simple, trustworthy, and verifiable for enterprises and public sector agencies looking to deploy mission-critical AI agents at scale. Headquartered in NYC, we are a lean, fast-moving team of engineers, strategists, and product thinkers. Our co-founding team spent the better part of a decade building AI/ML products at Palantir. We believe that a small, exceptionally talented team with a flat structure can out-pace and out-build massive hierarchies. If AI is going to fundamentally change how the world works, we have an obligation to make it verifiable, human-centered, and resilient.

## About the Role

As Thread AI’s first AI Builder Advocate, you are the person who proves what is possible on Lemma—and then shows the world exactly how to do it. Lemma is built for builders across the entire technical spectrum. Your audience isn't just the staff engineer wiring agents into production infrastructure; it’s also the highly technical operator automating a massive enterprise workflow that used to take a team weeks to execute. Your job is to meet all of them where they are. This is a high-autonomy, high-leverage role. You’ll ship production-grade reference apps that turn "is this possible?" into "this is running in production." You'll be the loudest internal voice for the builder experience, turning field insights into product reality. You will work directly with the founders, Engineering, and GTM teams to define the builder ecosystem from the ground up.

## What You’ll Do

Build & Prototype in Public

- Be the "User Zero" for every new product capability, SDK release, and API change—dogfooding the platform and providing merciless, high-signal feedback to Engineering.
- Prototype relentlessly against the highly complex, multi-model use cases our customers face across financial services, defense, healthcare, and energy.
- Architect and open-source runnable, pristine reference applications, starter templates, and demos that solve real-world enterprise orchestration challenges.

Create Content That Cuts Through the Noise

- Write clear, zero-fluff technical guides, deep dives, and "build-along" tutorials that help a builder get from an empty IDE to a working prototype in minutes.
- Produce high-fidelity video walkthroughs and live-coding sessions that demystify complex AI agent coordination and data flows.
- Ensure our documentation, examples, and technical messaging remain as precise and rigorous as the engineering behind the platform itself.

Mobilize the Builder Community

- Represent Thread AI as a credible, deeply technical voice at industry events, hackathons, and builder meetups.
- Act as a talent magnet and represent Thread AI’s culture and engineering bar compellingly in public so that top-tier builders want to join us. Use your ecosystem footprint to organically spot, cultivate, and attract exceptional technical talent to our growing team.
- Engage authentically where builders actually hang out (GitHub, Discord, Hacker News, X), earning trust by solving real problems and offering genuine technical support.
- Design and execute Thread AI's developer programming, including technical office hours and builder onboarding tracks.

## Who You Are

- The "Bilingual" Engineer: You have a strong software engineering background and can write clean, production-quality code (e.g., Python, TypeScript). However, you are equally energized when showing a non-traditional developer how to orchestrate a complex workflow.
- An Educator at Heart: You have a proven portfolio of teaching things to technical audiences—whether through technical blogging, open-source contributions, video tutorials, or public speaking.
- AI-Native: You build with LLMs and agentic frameworks daily. You understand the nuances of the modern AI stack (context windows, embeddings, MCP servers, and model latency) and know how the pieces fit together.
- High Autonomy, Low Ego: You thrive in unstructured environments. You don't wait for a spec; you see a gap in the builder experience and you ship the solution.
- An Exceptional Communicator: You can simplify dense architectural concepts without dumbing them down. You care about truth, clarity, and precision in technical content and can translate technical concepts into compelling narratives

We're committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, or age, we encourage you to apply! Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role and the company but your past experience doesn't align with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply anyway—we'd love to get to know you and see if there's a place for you at Thread!

## Compensation

$140,000 - $200,000 base + Bonus + Equity Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national or U.S. lawful, permanent resident. This is a full-time, in-person position based at our New York City office.

## About Thread AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Thread AI builds Lemma, a composable AI orchestration infrastructure and workflow platform that enables enterprises to safely deploy governed, reliable AI agents in mission-critical operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed + Series A funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Angela McNeal (CEO) and Mayada Gonimah (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / enterprise software
- **Target customers**: Regulated industries, Fortune 500 enterprises, public sector agencies, and any organization running business‑critical processes that require audit, control, and reliability.
- **Mission**: Bridge the gap between powerful AI models and production operations by providing controlled autonomy – letting AI agents act independently within clearly defined operational boundaries.

## Products & Services
- **Lemma** – A composable AI orchestration infrastructure and workflow builder. Key features include:
  - Drag‑and‑drop workflow builder plus code‑first SDK and API access (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, SFTP).
  - Built‑in security and governance: SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR, CJIS compliance; AES‑256 encryption at rest, TLS in transit; PII redaction; full audit trails.
  - Glass‑box observability with complete traceability for every agent decision and system access.
  - Dynamic workflow planning and execution supporting non‑deterministic, multi‑step agentic paths.
  - Human‑in‑the‑loop guardrails for critical decision points.
  - Deployment flexibility: VPC, on‑premises, or multi‑tenant SaaS.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$26M** across two rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Seed round (Oct 2024): $6M led by **Index Ventures** (5 investors)
  - Series A (Jul 2025): $20M led by **Greycroft** (6 investors)
  - Additional seed investor in 2023
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+75% YoY** to 24 employees.
  - LinkedIn followers grew **+191% year‑over‑year** (3,213 followers).
  - Powering production AI in Fortune 500 operations and public sector agencies.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team** – Former Heads of AI/ML Product and Engineering at Palantir Technologies, bringing deep experience deploying large‑scale data systems in the world’s most demanding environments.
- **“Controlled Autonomy” architecture** – Enables autonomous agents to operate within defined guardrails, satisfying both builder flexibility and enterprise compliance.
- **Enterprise‑grade compliance out‑of‑the‑box** – SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR, CJIS – no need to retrofit governance later.
- **Vendor‑agnostic composability** – Connects existing systems without replacing them (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, SFTP, SDKs).
- **Glass‑box observability** – Every workflow versioned, traced, and audit‑ready from first deployment.

## Strategic Focus
- Safely deploying AI in regulated environments where failure has real business consequences.
- Reducing infrastructure complexity so builders can prototype and productionize on a single platform without rebuilding.
- Maintaining strict data control: customers own their data and agents; no vendor lock‑in.

## Why Work Here
- **Founding story** – Built by AI leaders who left Palantir to solve one of AI’s hardest problems: reliable, governed deployment of agents.
- **Engineering culture** – Emphasizes “deep work, engineering excellence, and solving real‑world enterprise challenges.”
- **Growth trajectory** – Rapidly growing (24 employees, +75% YoY) with strong investor backing; early hires have significant impact.
- **Location & flexibility** – Office in New York, NY. Roles listed for New York; not explicitly remote/hybrid but open positions span engineering, sales, operations.
- **Notable perks** – Engineering‑first environment, opportunity to shape the infrastructure layer for enterprise AI.

## Sources
1. [threadai.com – Platform page](https://www.threadai.com/platform)
2. [threadai.com – Company page](https://www.threadai.com/company)
3. [linkedin.com – Thread AI Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/thread-ai)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com – Open positions at Thread AI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thread-ai)

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