Developer Relations Manager

Developer Relations Manager The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) is a global AI research lab dedicated to open and independent development of frontier-class foundation models. Launched in May 2025 by MBZUAI, IFM operates from advanced lab facilities in Abu Dhabi, Silicon Valley and Paris. IFM's model portfolio includes K2 series, the fully open-source fleet of LLMs; Jais, the most advanced Arabic LLM; and PAN, the next-gen World Model for embodied reasoning and real-world simulation. The Developer Relations Manager drives developer adoption of IFM's large language models (LLMs). With the model itself as the product, the role helps model users, humans and agents alike, understand its capabilities, evaluate its suitability and build with it. Based in Silicon Valley, you will work closely with users and builders across the full developer journey, from discovery and evaluation to integration and sustained use. You will work with researchers and engineers to translate that experience into model improvements, earning trust on both sides and using technical evidence to influence priorities without direct authority. This is a hands-on technical role requiring practical experience building with LLMs and a sound understanding of their capabilities, limitations and use in real applications.

Build relationships with model users and builders, identify valuable use cases, and support adoption from discovery and evaluation through integration and sustained use. Develop and maintain model guidance, documentation and tested examples for human developers and coding agents, including tool calling, structured outputs and multi-step workflows. Represent IFM's LLMs through technical demonstrations, talks and workshops, explaining their capabilities and limitations clearly and working with Community to reach relevant builders. Work with ecosystem partners and open-source maintainers to enable reliable use of IFM's models in relevant frameworks, inference tools and agent environments. Investigate adoption barriers and reproduce issues across model behavior, integration and deployment, translating findings into evaluation cases and recommendations that influence research priorities. Work with Developer Experience (DevEx) and model engineers to prioritize technical improvements, resolve issues and validate results with users. Engage early users before release, assess readiness for developer use, and track successful integrations, task outcomes and sustained adoption after launch.