[Hiring] Developer Experience Lead @Lm Studio

Role Description

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
• Shape standards
• Work directly with Yagil, our founder and CEO, to define strategy and the product roadmap
• Own developer surfaces end-to-end: stable, versioned APIs; TypeScript/Python SDKs; docs and examples
• Demo and market our APIs
• Collaborate with external partners on integrations
• 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

Company Description

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.