Senior Developer Relations Engineer

🏢 Youcom · 📍 San Francisco (Hybrid) · 💼 hybrid 💰 $230,000 - $230,000 / yr
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About Us

At You.com, we are building the AI Search Infrastructure that powers modern AI systems. Our goal is to create the trusted knowledge layer that agents, applications, and enterprises rely on to retrieve real-time, accurate, and citation-backed information.

Our platform combines proprietary vertical indexes with LLM-optimized retrieval systems to power AI agents, applications, and enterprise workflows. We are solving hard problems across search, large language models, and large-scale infrastructure to make AI systems more reliable, transparent, and useful.

Our team includes engineers, researchers, product builders, and operators who care about solving meaningful problems and delivering real-world impact. Whether you are improving core infrastructure, shaping product experiences, or helping bring new AI capabilities to market, your work will help define how modern AI finds and uses knowledge.

About the role

You.com builds AI-powered search and research APIs for the agent era — the retrieval layer developers reach for when they're building agents, copilots, and AI-native products. This role sits at the seam between engineering and the developer community. You're a strong Developer Relations Engineer who ships real things, and you're equally at home in an open-source repo, on a podcast, or on a conference panel.

We're looking for a builder developers trust, someone who can write a reference implementation one week and explain to a room of engineers (or a customer's CTO) why it matters the next.

What you'll do

  • Build reference implementations, demos, and tooling that show developers how to get real outcomes from You.com's APIs — improving agentic results, cutting inference cost and token usage, and getting strong performance out of smaller, cheaper models.
  • Contribute to the open-source AI community on You.com's behalf: ship and maintain projects, and land You.com into the agent frameworks and developer tools people are already using.
  • Be a credible technical voice — through code, writing, and talks — and represent You.com at hackathons, meetups, and panels. (We value this, but it isn't a weekly ask.)
  • Bring the developer's perspective back i
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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Assessing search innovation velocity, large language model integration capability, and user-centric problem-solving in conversational AI ecosystems.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Proposing monolithic architectures that cannot handle real-time generative search updates.
  • 2. Ignoring user privacy and hallucination mitigation in search outputs.
  • 3. Over-indexing on traditional keyword SEO instead of neural matching.
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I build robust architectures that merge deep LLM reasoning with instantaneous, reliable web search execution.

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