Founding DevRel Engineer at Onyx (W24)
$130K - $250K  ‱  0.10% - 1.00%
Open Source AI Assistant and Enterprise Search
San Francisco, CA, US
Full-time
3+ years
About Onyx

Onyx is the open source GenAI platform connected to your company's docs, apps, and people. We ingest and sync from all sources of information (Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, Confluence, Salesforce, etc.) to provide a centralized place for users to ask about anything. Imagine your most knowledgeable co-workers, all-rolled into one, and available 24/7!

We believe that every modern team will be adopting knowledge enhanced GenAI within the next 5 years and it is our goal to bring this technology to all the teams of the world.

We raised a $10M seed coming out of YCombinator, backed by Khosla Ventures (early/seed backers of OpenAI, Doordash, GitLab, etc.) and First Round Capital (Notion, Square, Roblox, etc.). Our customers include of the best teams in the world like Netflix, Ramp, Applied Intuition and dozens of others. We also have incredible open source users like Roku, Zendesk, L3Harris and more.

About the role
Skills: Next.js, Python, React, TypeScript

đŸ’„Â Your impact

Onyx is a popular open source project with hundreds of thousands of users. The project has over 10K stars and over 3K community members across Slack and Discord (these stats may already be out of date when you read this). You’ll be helping us scale our community and awareness so that we can become the biggest “GenAI for work” application in the world. Word of mouth and open source are our biggest drivers of growth and you’ll have the chance to lead this org as we scale.

💡 About the role

As our first Developer Relations Engineer, you will:

  • Be the primary interface between our team and the community. You will manage the Slack/Discord/GitHub communities
  • Lead webinars, hackathons, meetups, and conferences
  • Create content for growth and educating the community
  • Foster the contributor community, establish guidelines, and coach contributors to ensure that contributions meet our standards
  • Build relationships with partner organizations
  • Be the voice of the community and gather learnings to guide the roadmap

🚀 You’ll be successful if you


  • Have a strong engineering background (3+ years). We are a technical product and this is a technical role Engineering experience is a must have!
  • Can write clear, engaging technical content (blogs, API docs, documentation)
  • Can multi-task and juggle many ongoing priorities
  • Feel excited to be the first person of this org

⭐ Bonus points

  • Experience participating in developer communities and open source projects
  • Experience with Typescript/React/NextJS and Python
Technology

Technical Challenges:

  • Information retrieval at scale
  • Access controls, scalability, high availability, data freshness, etc.
  • Building the optimal UX for knowledge enhanced GenAI
  • LLM based knowledge graphs, multi-hop queries, aggregation type query handling
  • Semantic representation of the organization, subject matter experts, and major topics
  • Learn from user feedback
  • Personalized search
  • [Future] Code search, NL-to-SQL, Excel/Sheets calculations

Tech Stack: Typescript/NextJS, Python, Postgres, Redis, Docker/Kubernetes

AI Stack: Transformers and deep learning, RAG, knowledge graphs, LLM based agent, search engine/vector database

Interview Process
  • Intro Call (30 mins)
  • Respond to list of pre-prepared community questions (async)
  • Coding Round (45 mins)
  • Work Trial (3 days, fully covered + compensated)

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