Developer Relations Engineer

Fractional AI•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Fractional AI is widely regarded by practitioners as one of the best teams at AI implementation in complex scenarios. Our brand awareness among top-tier engineers hasn't kept pace with our output. On May 19, we became the founding team of Anthropic's new AI Services Business and it's the right moment to bring in our first Developer Relations Engineer to build a lasting engineering brand. You'll be embedded in the engineering team — reading code, sitting in architecture reviews, talking to clients — and translating that work into content, community, and presence that engineers actually respect. You're not a marketer who covers engineering. You're an engineer who happens to be exceptional at telling the story of the craft.

Requirements

Strong engineering foundation. You've shipped software and cared about doing it right. You understand why good system design matters and can have a credible technical conversation with a senior engineer about AI architecture, eval design, or production tradeoffs.
Exceptional writing. You write with clarity and specificity. You know the difference between content that earns attention and content that fills a feed. You've written things engineers have actually read and shared.
Taste for what resonates technically. You have a feel for the developer zeitgeist — what practitioners find credible, what reads as hype, what makes an HN post land versus get flagged.
High ownership mindset. You jump in without instruction, embrace a "no job too big, no job too small" mindset, and want to shape strategy and culture from day one.
Low ego, high integrity. You help others and ask for help. You hold a high bar for honesty, with yourself and your team.

Responsibilities

Write and publish technical content — blog posts, project teardowns, HN writeups — drawn from what the team is actually building
Build Fractional's presence on channels where strong engineers spend time: Hacker News, technical podcasts, conferences, and niche communities
Run high-signal community touchpoints: dinners, workshops, small events where top engineers encounter Fractional in a non-transactional context
Drive open source contributions and external projects that reflect Fractional's engineering caliber
Build partnerships with complementary technical brands — co-sponsoring events, co-publishing content, cross-pollinating communities
Feed signal back to engineering leadership: what practitioners are excited about, skeptical of, building toward