DevRel Lead (Developer Relations)

Job description

TL;DR: We're hiring a DevRel Lead to make White Circle the AI safety platform engineers and researchers actually want to build with. You'll own how we show up to technical audiences: shipping technical content, running hackathons and meetups, launching open-source tools like Halo, and building partnerships across the AI ecosystem.

ABOUT WHITE CIRCLE

White Circle https://whitecircle.ai/ is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale.

- We’ve recently raised our Series A funding round, taking our total funding to $70M. Our investors include top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others

- We process over one hundred million API calls every month

- We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model

We’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built – you’re the one we need.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own White Circle's developer relations: how engineers and AI researchers discover, understand, and adopt what we build

- Lead technical launches for open-source releases and developer tools, like our Halo framework, from narrative and demos through to launch day

- Write and publish technical content: blog posts, tutorials, walkthroughs, demos, and threads on X and LinkedIn

- Organise and run hackathons, meetups, and technical events, mainly in SF and New York

- Build and grow a technical community around our open-source work and platform

- Set up and run technical partnerships and collaborations with AI labs, dev tools companies, and research teams

- Give technical input to promo and product videos, working with our design and creative team on production

- Track what's working (signups, repo stars, views, event turnout, hiring pipeline) and double down on it

WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO

- Has a strong technical background as a software engineer, ML engineer, or researcher

- Has worked at a technical product company, ideally in dev tools, infrastructure, databases, or AI

- Has organised hackathons, meetups, or technical events, and can show how they went (turnout, signups, what came out of them)

- Has an engaged following among engineers and/or AI researchers on X, LinkedIn, GitHub, or elsewhere

- Knows the AI tooling landscape well: coding agents, eval frameworks, open-source models, and who is building what

- Can take a complex technical topic and make it compelling for a developer audience without dumbing it down

- Thrives with ownership and moves fast without waiting for direction

- Is based in the US, or able to work US hours. SF or New York is ideal, but we'll consider exceptional candidates anywhere

- Is fluent in English

A BIG PLUS

- You've led developer marketing or DevRel for a technical launch that drove real adoption

- You've contributed to or maintained popular open-source projects

- You have existing relationships across the AI research and developer community

- You've worked on or around AI safety, evals, or reliability

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

- Competitive compensation package, including equity

- Flexible time off

- Health insurance

- Mental health support, including coverage for therapy when you need it

- 401(k) retirement plan

- Learning and development support for courses, conferences, and opportunities to grow your skills

- All the hardware, subscriptions, tools, and services you need

- Team off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps, Saint-Tropez, and Marbella

PROCESS

1. Intro call with Talent (25 min)

2. Take-home assignment, with a choice of a walkthrough of one of our public repos or a launch case study on a sample company

3. Technical chat with Head of Design & Head of Applied Research (45 min)

4. Final conversation with CEO & Head of Engineering (45 min)