Community Developer Advocate - INTERN (FALL 2019)
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

OmniSci (formerly MapD) is the pioneer in GPU-accelerated analytics, enabling businesses and government to rapidly find insights in data beyond the limits of mainstream analytics tools. What started as a radical idea at Harvard and MIT, has grown to be a platform that is changing the way major businesses and governments gain insights from massive datasets.

OmniSci has made breakthrough advancements in big data querying and visualization, by harnessing the transformative power of supercomputer-grade GPUs. Since launching our product in 2016, OmniSci has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor, a Top Ten Coolest Big Data Startups by CRN, and is experiencing explosive growth in users and customers.

The company is backed by leading VCs and strategic investors, including NEA; Nvidia, GV (Google), In-Q-Tel, Tiger Global Management, Verizon Ventures and Vanedge Capital.

Overview:

OmniSci is seeking a Developer Advocate Intern for the Fall to help evangelize the power of our GPU-powered platform and support our community members. Critical components of this role include evangelizing the technical value of our offering and showing how it can be integrated into a larger analytics ecosystem. This position is located in San Francisco, CA. Only local Bay Area candidates will be considered.

Responsibilities:

* Build demos and workflows showing users and developers how the OmniSci platform can deliver value in the context of production environments and real use cases.
* Develop written materials and open source code repos showcasing the technical value of the product such as demos, blog posts and tutorials.
* Participate in technical events (user conferences, meetups, hackathons) geared toward attracting new users to the community.
* Engage with academic labs and researchers to promote adoption of the OmniSci platform in academia.
* Be a voice for the community inside OmniSci, offering guidance from your interactions with the community to positively influence product and marketing plans.
* In general, do anything and everything to get users and developers adopting and contributing to the OmniSci community.

Qualifications:

* This is a technical role; experience writing code and content (blog, video, etc.) for demos and proofs of concept, or as a developer building on top of database and analytics technologies is required. Typically, languages we use: SQL, python, and Javascript.
* Technical credibility is critical. The ideal candidate will be able to engage and support the community with a credible and knowledgeable voice.
* Fluency with databases and data analytics is important. Experience as a user of cutting-edge database, visualization and analytics technologies will ensure the demos and content are highly relevant to the community.
* Experience engaging as a member of other communities is valuable (especially open source but could include other proprietary developer platforms).
* Passion for the OmniSci project and driving adoption via our open source strategy.
* Working towards a graduate or undergraduate degree in a technical field.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Self-starter with ability to conceive of, and drive projects through to completion.