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Developer Experience Lead
Engineering
Element Labs
We aim to build delightful and potent creation tools for AI. We are a small team based in New York. Everyone on the team is IC-minded, intellectually curious, self-motivated, and loves software. We care deeply about our user community and we strive to build canonical software that users and developers love.
Our products include the LM Studio desktop app, our developer SDKs: lmstudio-js and lmstudio-python, our CLI lms, MLX engine mlx-engine for M-chip Macs, venvstacks which enables us to ship Python-based software, the collaboration Hub for individuals and teams, and more currently being built.
The Role
We're looking for an IC-first leader and educator to lead Developer Experience at LM Studio: APIs, SDKs, developer tooling and docs. You will design and implement APIs, build first versions, contribute and review code, and shape standards. You will work directly with Yagil, our founder and CEO, to define strategy and the product roadmap.
You will own developer surfaces end-to-end: stable, versioned APIs; TypeScript/Python SDKs; docs and examples. You will demo and market our APIs, collaborate with external partners on integrations, and help grow and guide the team while remaining hands-on.
Qualifications
- 7+ years building developer platforms, SDKs, or public APIs.
- Excellent DX sense: ergonomic APIs, clear errors, great docs/tutorials/examples.
- IC-first leadership. Own areas, design/version APIs, review code, ship first versions.
- Partner-facing. Demo/market APIs; collaborate with external teams on integrations.
- Strong background in one or more of: TypeScript, Python, C++, Objective-C, Swift.
- Existing twitter/blog presence or open-source contributions a plus.
Compensation
