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Clera

Developer Relations Engineer

San Francisco$160k–$220kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join a seed-stage MLOps startup as the founding Developer Relations Engineer in San Francisco, owning all community building, technical evangelism, and go-to-market activities from the ground up. You'll launch meetups, represent the company at conferences, demo a Python framework to engineering audiences, and convert community engagement into measurable pipeline.

What you'll do

  • Launch and grow a recurring ML-infrastructure meetup in San Francisco from zero into a flagship community event
  • Represent the company at AI/ML conferences, hackathons, and Bay Area tech gatherings
  • Deliver live technical demos of the Python-based open-source framework and answer engineering questions in real time
  • Create and publish talks, blog posts, demo videos, and social content informed by community feedback
  • Wire community signals, GitHub activity, and CRM data into lead-scoring and automated follow-up workflows
  • Gather and report structured intelligence on practitioner needs and product evaluation trends to inform product and GTM strategy

What they're looking for

  • Python proficiency with ability to read and troubleshoot production code
  • Developer Relations and community building experience
  • Event planning and execution with demonstrated attendance growth
  • CRM and marketing automation (Salesforce, Clay, Mixpanel, or similar)
  • GitHub API integration and open-source community dynamics
  • Technical content creation (talks, blog posts, demo videos)
  • Sales and business pipeline conversion skills
  • Product-led and usage-based GTM experience

Benefits

  • High autonomy and direct impact on product direction and pipeline
  • Opportunity to build community and brand presence from zero at a seed-stage company
  • Work directly with founders in the fast-growing AI/MLOps space
  • On-site in San Francisco with direct access to the Bay Area AI/ML ecosystem
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Clera

Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a recurring event you've built or grown from scratch—what metrics did you track and how did you convert attendance into business outcomes?
  • Tell us about a time you've demoed technical infrastructure or a framework live to a skeptical engineering audience—how did you handle tough questions?
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