About Featherless
Featherless.ai is building the world’s most reliable open-model inference platform — the infrastructure powering the next generation of AI creators, startups, and enterprises.
Backed by Airbus Ventures, 500 Global, Kickstart Ventures, HF0 Residency, Panache Ventures, and Oakseed Ventures, we’re a well-funded team of researchers and engineers on a mission to democratize AI through performance, reliability, and accessibility.
We deliver the best GPU utilization in AI infrastructure, supporting the full spectrum of open models and making advanced AI effortless for anyone to use. Our cloud provides instant access to 12,000+ open-source models and our latest research in efficient, reliable, and scalable model optimization.
About the Role
We’re hiring a Developer Relations Associate to champion the builders and startups defining the future of open AI. Ideal for a junior developer or software engineering graduate who wants to work across engineering, product, and community.
You will support and grow the Featherless ecosystem across the US — from students and researchers to indie builders and early-stage founders. This is a hybrid technical and GTM role where you help developers deploy open-source models, support hackathons, build lightweight demos, and help shape how the European builder community adopts Featherless.
This role blends technical fluency and real-world community presence. You’ll represent Featherless in Europe and online and get to meet with AI builders, creators, and founders who share our belief in open, accessible intelligence.
What You’ll Do
Empower developers: Help students, researchers, model creators, and early-stage AI startups deploy and scale their projects on Featherless.
Grow the ecosystem: Expand Featherless’s network of builders, labs, and university communities across Europe.
Build and share: Help create small examples, demos, starter templates, or reference integrations that show what’s possible with open models.
Represent Featherless: at hackathons, community events, and developer showcases.
Collect feedback: Act as the voice of the developer community — surfacing insights that shape our roadmap and improve the developer experience.
What You Bring
Background in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent technical experience.
Comfortable with Python or JavaScript and testing APIs, SDKs, or integrations.
Interest in AI/ML, LLMs, inference, or open-source developer ecosystems.
Entrepreneurial mindset — you’re proactive, resourceful, and enjoy building things end-to-end.
Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
Organized and reliable — able to manage multiple responsibilities independently.
Bonus: experience in hackathons, dev clubs, student labs, OSS projects, or early-stage startups.
Why Featherless
Work directly with founders and engineers on cutting-edge AI.
Operate in a high-velocity, technically deep startup where your work has immediate impact.
Build demos and developer tools that reach real users across the world.
Gain exposure to product, DevRel, GTM, partner programs, and technical operations.
Shape the open-model ecosystem from the ground up.
Opportunity to travel to hackathons or developer events across US.
Location
Strong preference for Boston Area
Compensation: USD $52-120K based on location and experience
If you're a technical builder who enjoys working with developers, shipping small prototypes, and shaping community programs, we’d love to hear from you.
Top Skills
What We Do
We enable serverless inference via our GPU orchestration and model load-balancing system. We unlock fine-tuning by enabling organizations to size their server fleet to throughput needs, not number of models in the catalogue. See it in action on our public cloud, which offers inference for 10k+ open weight models.
