Job Summary:
Fractional AI is focused on leveraging frontier AI to build industry-leading solutions. They are seeking a Developer Relations Engineer to enhance their engineering brand by creating technical content and engaging with the engineering community.
Responsibilities:
โข Write and publish technical content โ blog posts, project teardowns, HN writeups โ drawn from what the team is actually building
โข Build Fractional's presence on channels where strong engineers spend time: Hacker News, technical podcasts, conferences, and niche communities
โข Run high-signal community touchpoints: dinners, workshops, small events where top engineers encounter Fractional in a non-transactional context
โข Drive open source contributions and external projects that reflect Fractional's engineering caliber
โข Build partnerships with complementary technical brands โ co-sponsoring events, co-publishing content, cross-pollinating communities
โข Feed signal back to engineering leadership: what practitioners are excited about, skeptical of, building toward
Qualifications:
Required:
โข Strong engineering foundation. You've shipped software and cared about doing it right. You understand why good system design matters and can have a credible technical conversation with a senior engineer about AI architecture, eval design, or production tradeoffs.
โข Exceptional writing. You write with clarity and specificity. You know the difference between content that earns attention and content that fills a feed. You've written things engineers have actually read and shared.
โข Taste for what resonates technically. You have a feel for the developer zeitgeist โ what practitioners find credible, what reads as hype, what makes an HN post land versus get flagged.
โข High ownership mindset. You jump in without instruction, embrace a 'no job too big, no job too small' mindset, and want to shape strategy and culture from day one.
โข Low ego, high integrity. You help others and ask for help. You hold a high bar for honesty, with yourself and your team.
Company:
Fractional AI builds bespoke gen AI software to transform businesses. Founded in 2024, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.