Developer Advocate
typesafe ai is hiring a Developer Advocate in San Francisco, United States. It pays $150k-$250k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
AI in this role
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software by combining the intelligence of LLMs with the efficiency and reliability of code into a new shape of AI: System One Models. Based in San Francisco, TypeSafe AI recently launched its first public model, Jev.
While others chase benchmarks and academic puzzles, we’ve been quietly rethinking the LLM stack from first principles — building a new kind of general frontier model designed for real-world reliability, decision-making, and autonomy in production.
We’re a small, fast-moving team from OpenAI, Google Brain, and Meta/FAIR, backed by top-tier investors. Since mid-2024, we’ve been engineering the foundation for what comes after the current “state-of-the-art” — a model that actually gets things done.
About the roleResponsibilities
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
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 provideBase salary of $150k–250k plus equity, based on leveling
100% covered health insurance
Daily lunch and dinner
Visa sponsorships
401K plans
How we rate this
Developer Advocate at typesafe ai rates 72 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.
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