Developer Relations Engineer

Spiral • London, New York

2d • $175,000 - $275,000

About The Position

Spiral builds a fast analytical database for multimodal, multi-rate data streams, on top of the open source Vortex file format. Our users are AI/ML researchers and AI infra engineers, people who spend their days waiting on data loaders, writing video or sensor data pipelines, and watching expensive GPUs sit idle on I/O. We make that pain go away. We're small, technical, and early. The way we win researchers & developers is by being useful to serious practitioners.

Requirements

• You've done ML or training-infrastructure work yourself, and you've personally felt the data-loading / video-decode / GPU-utilization pain we remove.
• You write well about technical things. You can point us to things you've written.
• You're fluent in Python and comfortable in the PyTorch / Hugging Face / data-pipeline ecosystem.
• You have a working mental model of GPUs, training loops, and where the bottlenecks actually are.
• You are well connected in developer and/or AI communities.

Nice To Haves

• Open-source contributions in relevant territory (PyTorch data / DataLoader, HF datasets, Ray Data, video/decode tooling, or similar).
• Experience with columnar / analytical data formats.
• An existing audience among ML practitioners — welcome, but genuinely secondary to the credibility above.
• Prior DevRel, AI research, or research-engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Write technical cookbooks and end-to-end examples — video ingestion, GPU data loading for training, multimodal feature engineering — that a researcher can run and immediately understand.
• Build and maintain reference pipelines against real datasets (such as those on Hugging Face), and keep them working as the product moves.
• Produce credible benchmarks and the honest writeups that go with them.
• Be the developer's advocate internally: turn friction you and users hit into concrete product, client SDKs (e.g. pyspiral), and docs improvements.
• Answer real questions in the places our users already are (GitHub, community channels, conferences), and turn recurring ones into permanent docs.
• Represent Spiral at conferences.
• Give the occasional talk or workshop.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed