Full-Time

Developer Relations Engineer

Runware

Runware

51-200 employees

Generative AI platform with fast inference

No salary listed

San Francisco, CA, USA

Remote

Remote within the USA, with regular in-person community activities and events in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Category
Developer Relations
Required Skills
Git
REST APIs

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Requirements
  • Strong understanding of artificial intelligence models, especially generative and media-focused systems.
  • Experience engaging with developer communities through developer relations, community management, open-source work, hackathons, or similar activities.
  • Comfort presenting, demonstrating, and speaking to technical audiences.
  • Ability to explain complex concepts clearly and accurately.
  • Ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and marketing teams.
  • Comfort working fully remotely while attending frequent in-person events.
  • Strong sense of ownership.
Responsibilities
  • Represent Runware at meetups, hackathons, conferences, and workshops across the Bay Area and beyond.
  • Deliver live demos, lightning talks, hands-on sessions, and technical walkthroughs.
  • Partner with the Marketing & Events Lead to plan, prepare, and execute community-focused initiatives.
  • Follow up with write-ups, recaps, or topic-driven posts that extend the conversation beyond events and keep the community engaged online.
  • Build and nurture a strong local artificial intelligence developer community around Runware.
  • Support developers across Discord, GitHub, X/Twitter, Reddit, and other community channels.
  • Help developers integrate Runware’s application programming interface, troubleshoot issues, and explore use cases.
  • Collect and synthesize developer feedback to inform product and engineering teams.
  • Develop a deep understanding of Runware’s artificial intelligence models, including their capabilities, limitations, and ideal use cases.
  • Create demos, prototypes, and example projects that showcase real-world applications.
  • Maintain technical accuracy and clarity in public interactions and presentations.
  • Work with product, engineering, and marketing teams to translate new capabilities into community-ready demos and narratives.
  • Support product launches through event participation, live showcases, and developer outreach.
Desired Qualifications
  • Background in organizing or hosting developer events.
  • Startup experience or comfort in fast-moving environments.

Runware.ai provides an ultra-fast, cost-effective platform to deploy AI-generated content. It runs AI workloads on custom hardware in renewable-powered, self-managed data centers and offers a flexible API so apps can use AI features without extra infrastructure or ML expertise. The Sonic Inference Engine powers rapid media generation, with real-time WebSocket connections, built-in redundancy, autoscaling, GPU allocation, and parallel pipelines to ensure reliability. A library of over 188,000 models (including LoRA and ControlNet) supports diverse media tasks, with a goal of democratizing access to advanced generative AI for businesses.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$66M

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • December 2025 raised $50 million, extending runway for pod deployment and model expansion.
  • Runware said revenue grew 10x since Q3 2025, signaling strong demand.
  • 2026 hiring for engineering, DevOps, and sales shows active scaling across product and GTM.

What critics are saying

  • April 18, 2026 partial API outage exposed reliability risk in production.
  • July 2026 upstream data-center outage showed infrastructure dependence on third-party providers.
  • Open Enterprise AE hiring signals a hard GTM push without obvious category lock-in.

What makes Runware unique

  • Runware owns Sonic Inference Engine and custom GPU pods for low-latency inference.
  • December 2025 Series A from Dawn, Insight, Comcast, and a16z validates infrastructure ambition.
  • Runware claims 5 billion creations and 100,000 developers since launch.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Remote Work Options

Flexible Work Hours

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Family Leave

Stock Options

Meaningful stock options

Company Retreats

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Wellness Program

Mental Health Support

Gym Membership

Phone/Internet Stipend

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

8%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

12%
TechCrunch
Aug 4th, 2026
Runware raises $50M to build portable data center pods for AI inference

Runware has launched the Sonic Inference Pod, a modular, transportable data centre designed to provide flexible AI compute capacity. The company believes distributed compute positioned closer to end users will win long-term over massive hyperscaler projects. The pods use closed-loop cooling rather than water and can be built in days, compared to months or years for traditional data centres. Runware can add capacity quickly by deploying new pods rather than expanding fixed facilities. The company currently has 10 pods deployed across the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, with 160 sites available. Runware raised $50 million in Series A funding in December to provide infrastructure for image generation. CEO Flaviu Radulescu acknowledged AI power consumption will increase regardless of supplier, but emphasised the pods avoid transmission losses and new grid capacity requirements.

TechCrunch
Dec 11th, 2025
Runware raises $50M Series A for real-time image and video generation API

Runware, a developer platform for real-time image, video and audio generation, has raised $50 million in a Series A round led by Dawn Capital, with participation from Insight Partners and a16z Speedrun. Founded in 2023 by Flaviu Radulesc and Ioana Hreninciuc, Runware enables developers to integrate its API into applications to generate media assets through a single interface, eliminating the need for separate infrastructure or integrations. The platform uses custom AI inference infrastructure for open-source models and provides immediate access to newly released models. The company has powered over 5 billion creations for more than 100,000 developers since launch. Dawn Capital Partner Shamillah Bankiya is joining Runware's board following the investment.

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Tech Funding News
Sep 9th, 2025
Runware raises $13M for AI media

Runware, an AI-as-a-Service provider based in San Francisco, raised $13M in a funding round led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $16M. Investors include a16z Speedrun, Begin Capital, and Zero Prime. The funds will expand Runware's capabilities to all-media workflows, including audio, LLM, and 3D. Founder Flaviu Radulescu highlighted their platform's ability to offer up to 90% lower inference costs than cloud providers. Runware evolved from the image creation tool PicFinder.

Citybiz
Oct 2nd, 2024
Runware Secures $3M Funding

Runware, a San Francisco, CA-based media generation API startup, raised $3m in seed funding. Backers included A16Z’s Speedrun, LakeStar’s Halo II , Lunar Ventures, Begin Capital, Zero... Read More