Member of Technical Staff - Developer Relations

Must-have:

• Proven technical expertise: hands-on experience with LLMs, including model fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, full fine-tuning, distillation), tokenizer debugging, and a 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), and model serving frameworks (llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, ONNX Runtime, or TGI), alongside an understanding of quantization tradeoffs (GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ, INT8/INT4)
• Efficient model specialization: experience with on-device deployment (iOS, Android, embedded) or specialized work within the efficient-model ecosystem (Phi, Gemma, Qwen, SmolLM, or distilled architectures)

Nice-to-have:

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

What Success Looks Like (Year One)

• The LFM quickstart on Hugging Face is the cleanest path to production in the small-model ecosystem, with measurable lift in fine-tunes, downloads, and downstream Spaces. - A library of on-device reference apps, at least one each on iOS, Android, and an embedded target, that external developers fork, extend, and ship. - A regular cadence of in-person events (LFM hackathons, edge-AI build nights, technical workshops) that the developer community shows up for, with measurable community growth as a result. - A working developer-friction feedback loop: pain points are surfaced and fixed, OSS contributions land, talks get accepted, and inbound developer interest grows. ## What We Offer

• Build the function: You are defining how Liquid goes to market technically, with direct influence on product direction and access to the founding team. - Compensation: Competitive base salary with equity in a unicorn-stage company

• Health: We pay 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents

• Financial: 401(k) matching up to 4% of base pay

• Time Off: Unlimited PTO plus company-wide Refill Days throughout the year