Lead Developer Advocate

Lead Developer Advocate

About Parasail

Parasail is the multi-silicon inference cloud. It matches each workload to the right hardware across NVIDIA, AMD, Positron, and other next-generation accelerators and tunes the kernels underneath, then battle-tests the results across trillions of tokens a day. Every optimization ships to every customer, so every team gets performance tuned for their workload from one endpoint in minutes. Parasail is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and backed by Kindred Ventures, Turing Capital, Basis Set and others.

The role

We're looking for our first developer advocate to be Parasail's technical voice on inference, from open weight models and the hardware they run on to the applications built on top.

You'll run your own experiments on how inference behaves in production, write up what you find, present it at conferences and lead workshops for developers. Day to day, you'll work with our perf and platform engineers and represent Parasail with the model labs and hardware partners we build with. The role starts as an individual contributor, with room to build and lead a team as it grows.

What you'll do

• Advance the technical conversation. Do original work on how inference behaves in production: serving engines, hardware, latency, cost and quality. Publish the deep dives and references engineers bookmark and cite. Share your work where engineers already are, on X, LinkedIn and Hacker News, and through Parasail's own accounts for launches and results.
• Take it to the stage. Write CFPs and give talks at the conferences and meetups where AI engineers, infrastructure teams and model builders show up. You'll also run workshops and go on podcasts and panels.
• Work with the labs and the chip makers. Launch new models with open weight labs. Show developers what new silicon can do with partners like AMD, Positron and d-Matrix. Build integrations with the frameworks and tools developers already use. Align with the labs and chip makers on how to benchmark, and build joint benchmarks.

What success looks like

• Engineers learn from Parasail's technical work, cite it and share it.
• Parasail is a regular presence on stage at the conferences and meetups where AI engineers show up.
• An open benchmarking or research effort, shaped together, that other teams use.
• Joint launches and technical content with open weight labs and hardware partners.
• Our engineers co-author and speak regularly, and there's a clear plan for growing the team if the motion is working.

What you'll bring

• You've done technical work in public, like conference talks and writing that engineers cite, whether your background is developer advocacy, ML education, research or engineering.
• You build with LLMs in Python, can read serving engine code, and can explain the GPU-level tradeoffs behind latency, throughput and cost.
• You can make hard systems ideas clear without dumbing them down, on stage and in writing.
• You've contributed to or maintained open source that developers use.
• You know people across the AI ecosystem, or you know how to meet them fast.
• You'd rather build a function than inherit one, and you're comfortable working without a playbook.

Nice to haves

• Time in vLLM or SGLang, or on accelerators beyond NVIDIA
• Published evals or benchmark methodology for LLM systems
• Accepted talks at major AI, ML or systems conferences
• A following on X, LinkedIn or elsewhere, earned through your technical work
• A research or teaching background in ML or systems

Why Parasail

• A CEO who has built inference since 2012. Mike Henry founded Mythic and was interim CPO at Groq, and you'll work with him directly.
• Hardware most developers can't get to. Run your experiments on our multi-silicon fleet: NVIDIA, AMD and new accelerators.
• A founding role. You set the playbook and the bar for developer advocacy, and if the motion works, you'll hire and lead the team that grows it.
• Good timing. How people think about inference is being shaped right now by the people who explain it well, and there's room for new voices.

How to apply

If this sounds like you, hit us up with a link to the talk, repo or post you're proudest of and a few lines on why. We'll look at that before your resume.

What we offer

• Competitive base and meaningful equity
• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
• Generous PTO and company holidays
• 401(k) and family planning (fertility) benefits

Parasail is an equal opportunity employer that supports workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity/expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, or any other protected class. Parasail is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.