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Sambanovasystems

Senior Developer Advocate, AI Content & Community

San Jose, California, United States

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Role family
Engineering
Seniority
Senior
Country
US
Work mode
Remote-friendly
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23 Sept 2026

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SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide. At the core of SambaNova's technology is the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) — a chip built on a dataflow architecture rather than the traditional GPU model. Its decode performance is especially strong for agentic workloads like multi-turn agents, code generation, and long-running applications. RDUs are packaged into SambaRack, rack-scale hardware that lets customers deploy state-of-the-art models with better performance, greater energy efficiency, and faster time to value.

SambaNova is hiring a Senior Developer Advocate, AI Content & Community to make its technology visible, useful, and compelling to AI builders. This role will combine hands-on development with the reach and instincts of a trusted creator: building standout demos, showing developers what is possible, and working with influential voices across the developer ecosystem to amplify SambaNova’s technology.

About the Role

This is a builder-and-influencer role centered on working demos and developer credibility. You will use SambaCloud and the broader SambaNova platform to create agentic AI demos, applications, code, tutorials, videos, and live experiences that developers want to try and share. You will also cultivate relationships with technical creators, open-source contributors, community leaders, and developer influencers, turning product capabilities and ecosystem integrations into credible moments of discovery. The right candidate can prototype quickly, explain the technology clearly, perform naturally on camera or onstage, and convert one strong demo into content that travels across repositories, social channels, livestreams, workshops, and events.

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

Measure demo usage, developer activation, creator participation, social reach, engagement, community growth, and qualitative feedback; use those insights to improve the program

What We’re Looking For

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 Qualifications

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

Why This Role Matters

Developers trust working code, useful demos, and respected voices more than claims. This role will make SambaNova tangible to builders, create demonstrations that prove what the platform can do, and mobilize the developer influencers and communities that can carry those stories across the AI ecosystem.

Base Salary Range:

Base Pay Range

$196,000 — $240,000 USD

  • Submission Guidelines
  • Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at SambaNova Systems, you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified.
  • EEO Policy
  • SambaNova Systems is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
  • 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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