Developer Relations - Founding Role

Who We Are: Prior Labs is building breakthrough foundation models that understand spreadsheets and databases—the backbone of science and business. Foundation models have transformed text and images, but structured data has remained largely untouched. We’re tackling this $100B+ opportunity to revolutionize how we approach scientific discovery, medical research, financial modeling, and business intelligence.

Our Impact: We aim to be the world-leading organization working on structured data. Our TabPFN v2 model, recently published in Nature, sets the new state-of-the-art for small structured data. Our models have gained significant traction with 1M+ downloads and 3,500+ GitHub stars. We are now building the next generation of models that combine AI advancements with specialized architectures for structured data.

Backing and Momentum: With €9M in pre-seed funding from top-tier investors including Balderton Capital, XTX Ventures, and Hector Foundation—and support from leaders at Hugging Face, DeepMind, and Silo AI—we’re moving rapidly toward commercialization.

Read more about our vision on our blog.

As the Developer Relations - Founding Role at Prior Labs, you will be the technical face of Prior Labs. You will be responsible for leading technical product marketing to nurture a vibrant community around our foundation models. As the first DevRel hire, you will be creating and sharing meaningful content, making samples and tutorials, documentation or even core pull-requests when required. You'll directly engage with data scientists through social media, blogs, and at events, providing insights and support, and collecting feedback that you'll use to directly influence what we build. Your work will directly contribute to building a supportive and collaborative developer community around Prior Labs and to inform Prior Labs’ model & product development.

Community Building & Engagement

• Be the technical face of Prior Labs: Design and execute our community strategy across Discord, GitHub, and social media.

• Provide active support to our community members on platforms like Discord and GitHub, addressing user-reported issues, contributing to bug fixes, and improving the overall user experience.

• Organize and manage community-driven events and programs, such as ambassador programs, online/offline events, and hackathons.

• Actively participate in Kaggle challenges and other data science competitions by applying and fine-tuning TabPFN models to build credibility within the data science community.

Education & Applications

• Develop and publish a variety of online content, including blog posts, in-depth tutorials, comparative analyses, and technical documentation.

• Manage the end-to-end content creation process, from identifying compelling use-cases and gathering necessary data to implementing technical solutions and showcasing results.

• Oversee the company's website and technical documentation, implementing SEO best practices to improve visibility and discoverability of our resources.

• Experiment with various techniques to showcase TabPFN's capabilities and build credibility within the data science community.

Product Led Growth

• Work side by side with the Founding Team to develop, lead and execute on all areas of Prior Labs’ DevRel and Developer Marketing strategy.

• Coordinate and execute content-focused initiatives with external companies and organizations, specifically leading efforts in fine-tuning TabPFN for diverse domains using publicly available datasets, with the goal of increasing TabPFN adoption and generating customer leads.

• Collaborate with industry influencers and partners to co-create and promote content.

• Analyze community feedback to inform product development and track and optimize key community and growth metrics.

You've done this before. Your participation in relevant projects will have previously earned you the respect of open-source and engineering communities. You have published excellent written content, marketing materials, and documentation. You have:

• Technical background with Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field

• 3+ years experience in developer relations, community management, or similar roles

• Strong understanding of machine learning and data science

• Excellent communication and writing skills, comfortable with deep technical writing and conference presentations, with a talent for distilling complex technical concepts into clear, accessible language

• Experience managing social media platforms and creating engaging digital content

• Track record of creating technical content for developer audiences

• Leadership skills with the ability to inspire and grow a technical community

• Experience with MLOps, AutoML, or foundation models

• Background in data science or machine learning engineering

• History of building successful Discord or GitHub communities

• Experience organizing technical events or conferences

• Strong network in the data science community

• Background in product-led growth

• Open source project experience

• Public speaking experience

• Offices in Freiburg, Germany - a university city at the edge of the Black Forest, Switzerland and France, and Berlin—a global tech hub and one of Europe’s most dynamic cities

• Competitive compensation package with meaningful equity

• 30 days of paid vacation + public holidays

• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, transportation, and fitness

• Work with state-of-the-art ML architecture, substantial compute resources and with a world-class team

• We believe the best products and teams come from a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. That’s why we welcome applications from people of all identities and walks of life, especially anyone who’s ever felt discouraged by "not checking every box."

• We’re committed to creating a safe, inclusive environment and providing equal opportunities regardless of gender, sexual orientation, origin, disabilities, or any other traits that make you who you are.