About us We're building toward a world where every company can become its own AI lab. Goaly is an early-stage AI startup founded by ex-Meta Superintelligence Labs engineers and researchers. Our founders built the Llama Research Platform that every Llama post-training run landed on, and led post-training efficiency on Meta's Superintelligence team. Our mission is to dramatically lower the cost, time, and talent barriers to building proprietary AI — and make each generation of models faster and cheaper to build than the last. Goaly is the autonomous performance layer for AI training. It watches every job across a GPU fleet, catches the runs that are wasting compute, reallocates what it frees up, and shows teams what each model improvement actually costs. It runs on-prem, telemetry-only, and starts read-only. Backed by leading AI investors and endorsed by frontier AI researchers and builders, we're looking for an engineer who loves developers, knows how to bring them together, and brings what they say back into the product. About the role You will be our 1st Developer Relations hire, working closely with the founding team, and you will own three things: • Build the Goaly developer community. The AI teams who build on and around Goaly, online and in person, from the first hundred to the first ten thousand. • Host the events where that community meets. AI Hackathons, workshops, meetups, office hours, technical deep dives / podcasts, and conference presence. • Collect product feedback and get it acted on. Through Discord and Slack, GitHub, social, and face-to-face conversations, then into engineering with enough precision that it changes the roadmap. You need an engineering background, because you will build demos, write quickstarts, and answer real technical questions in public. You need a customer-first product mindset, because the job is to make developers successful first and Goaly successful as a result. You do not need a background in model training. Bonus: If you have shipped AI applications or worked as a forward-deployed engineer (FDE), that is a big bonus. This is a founding role. You will work with the founding team closely. There is no playbook yet; you help write it, and you will have real influence over how Goaly is perceived and adopted by the AI developer community. What you'll do Build the AI developer community • Stand up and run Goaly's developer community: Discord or Slack groups, and the social channels where our users already are (X, LinkedIn, Hacker News, Reddit). • Be present every day: answer questions, welcome newcomers, triage issues, gather product feedback, and surface what people are building. • Identify and amplify community contributions, success stories, and creative uses of Goaly. • Build relationships with influential developers & AI researchers, open-source maintainers, and technical educators in the AI space, and bring them in as early members and collaborators. Host events • Plan and run Goaly's event program end to end: hackathons, hands-on workshops, Bay Area meetups, office hours, and live coding sessions. You own agenda, speakers, logistics, on-site execution, and follow-up. • Represent Goaly at conferences, hackathons, and university recruiting events. Land talks at the venues our users attend (PyTorch Conference, MLSys, Ray Summit, GTC, AI Engineer events, NeurIPS and ICML workshops). • Turn each event into community growth, product feedback, and pipeline, and track which formats actually work. Collect and route product feedback • Gather feedback from online channels and from in-person conversations with users, design partners, and prospects, and synthesize it into clear, prioritized insight for engineering and product. • Reproduce the problems developers hit, bring precise reports back to engineering, and close the loop with the community on what shipped. • Join design-partner and prospect calls with the GTM team when a technical voice closes the gap, and turn repeated questions into docs, demos, or product changes. Build and explain • Build demo applications, sample integrations, and reference setups that show what is possible on Goaly, and keep them working as the product evolves. • Write the quickstarts, tutorials, and cookbooks that get a developer from zero to a first result in thirty minutes. • Partner with engineering to turn every new capability into accessible content the week it ships: posts, short videos, live walkthroughs. • Turn the founding team's experience into talks and posts that the community wants to share. Own the community growth • Track community growth and engagement, event attendance and follow-through, docs funnel, feedback items shipped, inbound design-partner requests, and candidates sourced. Double down on what works and kill what doesn't. WHAT A TYPICAL WEEK LOOKS LIKE • A day and a half in the community: Discord and GitHub, DMs with developers, welcoming and unblocking people, writing up what they said. • A day building: a demo app, a sample integration, a quickstart that broke, reproducing a bug a user reported. • A day on events: planning the next workshop or hackathon, lining up speakers, prepping a talk, or running the event itself. • Half a day writing or recording: a post, a tutorial, a short video. • A day with the team: engineering sync on feedback and what shipped, GTM sync on what prospects asked, founder time on narrative. • Roughly 10% travel over the year for conferences, hackathons, and customer visits. You may be a good fit if you have • An engineering background: 1-3 years as a software engineer and 1+ year AI-native coding experiences. You can build a working demo quickly, read someone else's stack trace, and answer a technical question in public without checking with anyone first. • Experience building applications with LLMs or AI tooling. You have shipped something real on top of a model API or an AI framework and debugged it when it broke. • A customer-first product mindset: ability to listen to fru