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title: 'Developer Relations Lead at Zyphra'
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# Developer Relations Lead at Zyphra

- **Company:** Zyphra
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-03-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zyphra/2432117b-dfa8-4438-8564-589d8f28d28b

## Job description

ZYPHRA IS AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANY BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

## THE ROLE:

As a Developer Relations Lead, you will own the developer community that forms around Zyphra’s open-source models and Zyphra’s AI agent, Maia from the ground up. You will be the primary face of Zyphra to the global developer community, building and scaling our presence on GitHub, Discord, X, and at the industry events that matter most. This is not a content production role. You are a technically credible practitioner who is also a natural community builder: someone developers trust, follow, and build with.

There is an early community already forming around Zyphra’s models. Your job is to find it, accelerate it, structure it, and turn it into one of the most active open-source AI communities in the field. You will be a critical member of the GTM team and work in close collaboration with Zyphra’s research, engineering, and product teams.

## YOU’LL WORK ACROSS:

- Owning the development, expansion, and moderation of Zyphra’s developer community end-to-end across all public channels including Discord, GitHub, and Hugging Face while also growing our developer brand across X, LinkedIn, and other technical channels
- Representing Zyphra at AI conferences, developer summits, open-source events, academic forums, and community meetups: speaking, demoing, and building relationships that expand our reach and credibility in the developer ecosystem
- Driving GitHub adoption metrics across Zyphra’s open-source model repositories: stars, forks, issues, pull requests, and active contributor velocity as direct measures of ecosystem health
- Acting as the primary feedback channel between Zyphra’s developer community and the research and product teams, synthesizing what developers are building, where they are getting stuck, and what would unlock the next wave of adoption across modalities
- Building and executing a community growth strategy that converts each model release into sustained developer engagement: launch moments, contributor programs, ambassador networks, and structured onboarding for new community members
- Driving API consumption and model usage, helping developers understand what Zyphra’s models and agent can do, where they are differentiated, and how to get started quickly and successfully
- Creating and curating technical content that serves the community: integration guides, benchmark comparisons, use-case demos, deployment walkthroughs, and example projects that showcase what developers can build on Zyphra’s open foundation models and inference infrastructure
- Partnering with the GTM team on model launch strategy, open-source announcements, and developer-facing go-to-market motions that maximize community impact at each release

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR / REQUIREMENTS:

- A genuine community participant, you have built with open-source AI models, understand how developers think about evaluating and integrating foundation models, and can speak credibly in technical conversations with researchers and engineers
- 3–6 years of experience in developer relations, developer advocacy, open-source community management, or a closely related technical role at an AI, ML, or developer tools company
- Demonstrated track record of building or meaningfully growing a technical developer community measured in GitHub engagement, Discord or Slack membership, social following, or conference presence
- Comfort and credibility on stage: you have spoken at developer conferences, hosted workshops, or led technical demos in front of audiences of engineers
- Strong technical foundation in AI and machine learning, you understand model architecture, inference, fine-tuning, and deployment well enough to engage authentically with the developers building on Zyphra’s models and Maia
- A natural communicator who can explain highly technical concepts clearly across formats: live presentations, written posts, short-form social content, and one-on-one developer conversations
- Self-directed and energized by building from scratch, you thrive in early-stage environments where the community platform, the content calendar, and the ambassador program all need to be created
- Deep familiarity with the open-source AI ecosystem: the platforms developers use, the communities they participate in, the events they attend, and the voices they trust

## QUALIFICATIONS / ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

- Prior experience working at or closely with an open-source AI lab, model provider, or developer tools company where OSS community traction was a primary GTM objective
- Existing presence or credibility in the AI developer community: GitHub contributions, published technical content, conference talks, or a social following
- Experience running contributor programs, ambassador programs, or structured community initiatives that systematically expand developer engagement beyond organic growth
- Familiarity with community health metrics and the ability to build reporting frameworks that connect community activity to model adoption and API consumption
- Understanding of how developers evaluate and adopt open-source AI models, including the role of benchmarks, licensing, documentation quality, and inference performance in adoption decisions
- Experience collaborating with research teams to translate model releases, papers, and technical milestones into community moments that drive developer attention and engagement
- Breadth across modalities, familiarity with language, audio, vision, and/or BCI AI systems is a meaningful differentiator given the breadth of Zyphra’s model portfolio
- Comfort using AI tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.) to accelerate content creation, community management, and outreach workflows

## WHY WORK AT ZYPHRA:

- Zyphra is building at the frontier of AI and this role sits at the center of how that work gets seen
- You will build and help define the function, not inherit it; there is no legacy playbook to maintain
- We move with the urgency of a startup and the rigor of a research lab, speed and quality are not in tension here, they're expected together
- You will work directly alongside researchers, engineers, and founders, not through layers of management, which means your work gets seen, challenged, and improved fast
- We believe GTM can be a demonstration of what AI can do; you will be empowered to prove that

## BENEFITS AND PERKS:

- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans
- Competitive compensation and 401(k) plan
- Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis
- In-office snacks and meals provided
- Unlimited PTO and company holidays
- In-person team in San Francisco with a collaborative, high-energy environment

## About Zyphra

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zyphra is a full-stack AI company building open foundation models and a sovereign cloud platform to deliver advanced AI to developers, enterprises, and hyperscalers.
- **Entity Type**: Private, Series A
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020 (some sources cite 2021)
- **Founders**: Krithik Puthalath (CEO), Beren Millidge (Chief Scientist), Danny Martinelli (Head of Product), Tomás Figliolia (Chief Architect)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Foundation Models / Cloud AI Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: Developers, enterprises, and "frontier AI hyperscalers" (B2B)
- **Mission or purpose**: "Open Superintelligence" – to enable sovereign, transparent, and customizable AI that runs on any hardware without vendor lock-in.

## Products & Services
- **[Zyphra Research](https://www.zyphra.com/)**: Open-source foundation models trained on heterogeneous compute, focusing on novel architectures for long-term memory, continual learning, and silicon performance. Released as research prototypes.
- **[Zyphra Cloud](https://www.zyphra.com/)**: Full-stack AI platform built on AMD, designed for long-horizon agents. Provides managed infrastructure for deploying, customizing, and running Zyphra's or third-party models with full data sovereignty.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$11M** (Series A)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: AMD, Intel Capital, Future Ventures, Bison Ventures, Transpose Platform, and others
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **151.9% YoY** to 53 employees
  - Operates in 5 countries (US, UK, Canada, India, Saudi Arabia) with offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, and London
  - Active job postings: 14 (up 16.7% quarterly)
  - LinkedIn followers grew 236.3% year-over-year

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack open-source approach**: Combines novel model architectures (probabilistic computing, heterogeneous compute) with a cloud platform optimized for long-horizon AI agents.
- **Hardware agnosticism**: Promises "run intelligence across any hardware and any provider, without lock-in," with early focus on AMD silicon.
- **Commitment to openness**: Models are transparent, allowing customers to audit reasoning and adapt to specific domains.
- **Sovereignty focus**: Enterprises own their models, data, and deployments – appealing to regulated industries.

## Strategic Focus
- **Priority on architecture innovation** (continual learning, long-term memory, silicon performance) over scaling existing methods.
- **Building a full-stack platform** that tightly couples research breakthroughs with a production-grade cloud service.
- **Scaling the team** aggressively – hiring across research engineering, platform, developer relations, and AI engineering.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture of open research**: Employees contribute to novel model architectures that are publicly released, offering a rare blend of academic freedom and product impact.
- **Heavy engineering focus**: 57% of the team is in technical roles, with a flat structure (62% specialist-level roles).
- **Locations**: San Francisco (HQ) and London, with potential for remote-friendly roles (not explicitly stated).
- **Notable perks**: Not detailed publicly, but typical for a well-funded Series A startup (equity, benefits, etc.).
- **Growth trajectory**: 150%+ headcount growth signals rapid scaling and career advancement opportunities.

## Sources
1. [zyphra.com](https://www.zyphra.com/)
2. [zyphra.com about](https://www.zyphra.com/about)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/zyphra](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zyphra)
4. [linkedin.com/company/zyphra](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zyphra)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/zyphra](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/zyphra)

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