Founding Developer Relations Engineer

Overview

Foundation models have transformed text and images, but structured data remains the largest and most consequential data modality in the world. Tables power every clinical trial, every financial model, every scientific experiment, every business decision. No one has built a foundation model that truly understands them. Until now. What LLMs did for language, we’re doing for tables.

The momentum: we pioneered tabular foundation models and are now the world-leading organization in structured data ML. Our TabPFN v2 model was published in Nature and set a new state-of-the-art for tabular machine learning. Since its release, we’ve scaled model capabilities more than 20x, reached 3M+ downloads, 6,000+ GitHub stars, and are seeing accelerating adoption across research and industry — from detecting lung disease with Oxford Cancer Analytics to preventing train failures with Hitachi to improving clinical trial decisions with BostonGene.

We’re scaling tabular foundation models to handle millions of rows, thousands of features, real-time inference, and entirely new data modalities while building the infrastructure to deploy them in production across demanding industries. These are open problems no one else is working on at this level.

Our team: a small, highly selective group of 20+ engineers, researchers and GTM specialists, selected from over 5,000 applicants, with backgrounds spanning Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, G-Research, Jane Street, Goldman Sachs, and CERN, led by Frank Hutter, Noah Hollmann and Sauraj Gambhir and advised by world-leading AI researchers such as Bernhard Schölkopf and Yann LeCun. We ship fast, create top-tier research, and hold each other to a high bar.

What’s Next: in 2025 we raised €9m pre-seed led by Balderton Capital and backed by leaders from Hugging Face, DeepMind, and Black Forest Labs. The next phase of growth is here, making this an optimal time to join.

About The Role

As the Developer Relations - Founding Role at Prior Labs, you will be the technical face of Prior Labs, responsible for nurturing a vibrant community around our foundation models. As the first DevRel hire, you will create and share meaningful content, build samples and tutorials, improve documentation, and contribute code when needed. You’ll directly engage with data scientists through social media, blogs, Discord, GitHub, and at events, providing insights and support while collecting feedback that directly influences what we build. This role requires a unique balance: you must be technical enough to earn credibility with ML engineers and social enough to build genuine relationships with our developer community.

Your week looks like

Your week balances technical building with community engagement:

Technical work (~60%) : Write Python demos and Colab notebooks, contribute bug fixes and improvements to our repos, create tutorials showing real TabPFN use cases, experiment with the model on diverse datasets, build sample applications

Community work (~40%) : Answer questions on Discord and GitHub, host community office hours, share content and engage on social media, gather and synthesize developer feedback, organize virtual events or hackathons

Core Areas of Impact

Build & Engage

• Be the active, helpful voice of Prior Labs across Discord, GitHub, social media, and data science communities
• Provide technical support: answer developer questions, help debug issues, contribute bug fixes based on community feedback
• Organize community initiatives like virtual meetups, hackathons, or ambassador programs
• Participate in data science communities and competitions (Kaggle, etc.) to showcase TabPFN and build credibility

Create & Educate

• Ship technical content that helps data scientists succeed: tutorials, demos, Colab notebooks, blog posts, comparative analyses
• Build resources from scratch: identify use cases, gather data, implement solutions, showcase results
• Maintain and improve technical documentation based on community feedback
• Experiment with TabPFN on diverse datasets to discover and demonstrate capabilities

Product Led Growth

• Partner with the founding team to shape DevRel strategy and priorities
• Synthesize community feedback and translate it into actionable product insights
• Build relationships with data science practitioners, influencers, and partners for content collaboration
• Track and optimize community metrics (engagement, adoption, content reach)

What We’re Looking For

Technical foundation

• Technical background with a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field
• Strong Python skills and ability to write clean, functional code
• Solid ML fundamentals: you understand training, fine-tuning, inference, and can work with frameworks like scikit-learn, PyTorch, or similar
• Proven track record of technical work in public — we need to see your contributions (open source PRs, technical blog posts, GitHub projects, conference talks, etc.)

Community building

• Active participation in technical communities (GitHub, Discord, Stack Overflow, Twitter/X, Reddit, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication — you can explain complex ML concepts clearly to practitioners
• Comfortable being a public face — you enjoy developer engagement on social media, forums, and at events

Experience

• 3+ years in developer relations, community management, technical content creation, ML engineering with community involvement, or similar roles where you bridge technical and community work
• Track record of creating technical content that developers actually use and reference

What Makes You Special

• You’ve competed in Kaggle or similar data science competitions
• Background as a data science or ML engineering practitioner
• Experience with AutoML, MLOps, or foundation models
• You’ve built or grown technical communities (Discord, GitHub, forums) from scratch
• You’ve organized technical events, hackathons, or conferences
• Active network in the data science/ML community
• Open source maintainer or frequent contributor
• Public speaking experience at technical conferences or meetups

Life at Prior Labs

We’re a small, ambitious team solving one of the hardest problems in AI, and we’re just getting started. You’ll work closely with world-class researchers and builders who care deeply about the quality of their craft, the impact of their work, and the people they work with. We move fast, we think rigorously, and we take the time to do things right. If you’re excited by hard problems, motivated by real-world impact, and want to be part of building something that matters, we’d love to hear from you.

Our Commitments

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