Developer Advocate, Machine Learning

About Us

Union.ai is a Seattle-based startup founded by a team of former Lyft engineers.  We contribute to Flyte,  an open source platform for orchestrating massively scalable machine learning pipelines running on Kubernetes. 

These pipelines power some of the most popular apps on your phone, as well as applications in diverse industries such as song sharing, vaccine research, early cancer detection, global map rendering, financial projecting, and piloting autonomous vehicles.

The Opportunity:

Union AI is an open source first company. We provide infrastructure for our customers to build delightful Machine Learning driven products and deliver them in production. The objective of the Developer Advocate is to support developers who want to learn about Union Open source products - Flyte, UnionML and Pandera, and enable them to use them in production settings. In this role, you are the bridge between the engineering team and the developer community. The ideal candidate will be an ML practitioner, earning trust and credibility with our product champions (Machine Learning Engineers) as a product of their hands on experience.

In this role, you will:

• Steer and drive the community engagement for Flyte, UnionML & Pandera

• Establish credibility with developers and developer communities as a thought leader and partner

• Provide code samples, presentations, tutorials, and blogs for developers

• Present technical sessions at conferences, running workshops, and hands-on hackathons

• Grow, manage, and maintain a positive public profile with the community at large

• Collaborate and coordinate community-building activities with various Union teams

• Provide user feedback to Flyte/Union engineering teams

About you:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

• You have previous experience (at least six months) in working with open source communities, ideally in data science, machine learning, or data orchestration

• Creating high-quality tutorials, videos, presentations

• Blogging, technical documentation, developer outreach, and writing technical documentation 

• Understanding core Kubernetes principles with hands-on Kubernetes experience

• Working knowledge or in depth understanding of Data Processing and Machine Learning systems

• You are humble and collaborate well with other people. You thrive in team settings and exhibit excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• You are self-motivated, reliable, and can function effectively in a distributed team

Benefits & Belonging

At Union.ai we know that employees who feel their best can build amazing things and we are proud to offer best in class benefits that will continually evolve and grow as the needs of our employees do. Benefits may vary based on country

• Excellent medical - We pay 100% of your premiums and 90% for your dependents

• Generous dental and vision plans- We pay 80% of the premiums for you and your dependents

• Meaningful equity in the form of options – all employees are owners here

• Unlimited PTO + 12 company holidays 

• 401K match: Union.ai matches 100% of contributions up to the first 3%, and 50% up to 5%

• 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers

• Flexible work schedule at a remote friendly company

We believe that our differences are what bring us together to achieve truly special outcomes. We strive to be inclusive and focus on building teams that embody that quality too. Union.ai is an equal-opportunity employer and we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t align exactly with our job description.