Developer Relations Manager

Boson

. Own quickstarts, notebooks, sample apps, and API walkthroughs that take developers from an API key to first audio and production-quality applications .

Posted 10/6/2026full-timeSanta Clara • California • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $180,000 - $280,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in developer relations and advocacy, with a strong focus on building and shipping applications using AI APIs, particularly in real-time voice and audio technologies. Proficient in technical writing and community engagement, with a proven ability to prioritize developer needs and feedback.

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Python ProgrammingReal-Time Voice TechnologiesTechnical WritingCommunity ManagementAI API Experience

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Hard Skills

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptREST APIsWebSocket APIsAsync CodeStreaming CodeSpeech ModelsVoice CloningSelf-Hosting Models

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationEngaging PresentationIndependent WorkJudgment in PrioritizationCommunity Building

Tools & Technologies

WebRTCPipecatLiveKitSGLangVLLMTelephonyAudio CodecsVoice Activity DetectionTurn DetectionHackathon Management

Industry Keywords

Developer RelationsDeveloper AdvocacyOpen-Source ProjectsAI Developer CommunityMultilingual Behavior

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own quickstarts, notebooks, sample apps, and API walkthroughs that take developers from an API key to first audio and production-quality applications
Build reference applications for real-time voice and avatar agents, STT + LLM + TTS pipelines, multilingual and expressive speech, streaming low-latency apps, and OpenAI Realtime API migrations
Own ecosystem integrations including Pipecat, LiveKit, Twilio and SIP telephony, SGLang, and vLLM, from prototype through maintenance, documentation, and announcement
Write blog posts, record demo videos and livestreams, give talks, and run workshops and hackathons
Answer developer questions and triage issues across GitHub, Hugging Face, X, Reddit, and LinkedIn; build a Boson AI community
Help developers evaluate quality, latency, cost, open weights versus hosted API, self-hosting versus managed services, streaming, tool calling, turn-taking, and multilingual behavior
Translate developer friction into prioritized fixes with product, research, and engineering
Lead the developer side of model and API launches, including docs, samples, release notes, demos, and community follow-through
Define and report metrics including time to first audio, activation, integration adoption, and community growth
Establish maintained reference apps, integration recipes, publishing cadence, community support, and developer-feedback reporting

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years in developer relations, developer advocacy, solutions engineering, or software engineering, with a public track record of technical content, open-source work, or talks
Strong Python, plus working comfort with JavaScript or TypeScript, REST and WebSocket APIs, and async and streaming code
Hands-on experience building and shipping applications on AI APIs or models, such as LLM, speech, or vision
Clear, engaging technical writing and speaking, with examples you can share
The judgment to prioritize across content, community, and product feedback, and to work independently in a fast-moving startup
Ability to use agentic AI efficiently in your work, so you can deliver at superhuman level
Experience with real-time voice or audio: WebRTC, telephony, audio codecs, voice activity and turn detection, or voice-agent frameworks like Pipecat or LiveKit Agents
Familiarity with speech models (TTS and ASR), voice cloning, or speech-quality evaluation
Experience self-hosting models on GPUs with SGLang, vLLM, or similar serving stacks
Experience maintaining open-source projects, including issue triage and community management
Experience launching developer products, running hackathons, or building developer programs such as credits, ambassadors, or office hours
An existing presence in the AI developer community
Fluency in a language besides English

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Benefits
Hybrid work schedule
Up to 20% travel for conferences, hackathons, and partner events