Entry-Level Developer Advocate - AI & Open Source

Introduction

About the Role

Are you passionate about empowering developers and shaping the future of AI and open source technologies? IBM is looking for an enthusiastic Entry-Level Developer Advocate to help developers succeed with our strategic AI products and open source initiatives. In this role, you'll create engaging content, write sample code, and build community experiences that make it easier for developers to learn, build, and innovate.

You'll also play a critical role in surfacing unmet developer needs and translating them into actionable feedback for product teams, documentation improvements, and better developer experiences.

Why Join Us

• Be part of a mission-driven team shaping the future of AI and open source.
• Work with cutting-edge technologies and world-class engineers.
• Grow your career in developer advocacy and technical communication.
• Enjoy a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative work environment.

Your role and responsibilities

• Create Content: Develop technical tutorials, blog posts, videos, and sample applications that showcase how to use IBM's AI products and open source tools effectively.
• Write Code: Build and maintain example projects, demos, and code snippets that help developers understand and adopt our technologies.
• Engage the Community: Participate in developer forums, GitHub discussions, Discord/Slack channels, and events to support and grow our developer community.
• Advocate for Developers: Identify pain points and gaps in documentation, tooling, or product usability, and work with internal teams to improve the developer experience.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with engineering, product, and documentation teams to ensure developer feedback is heard and acted upon.
• Stay Current: Keep up with industry trends in AI, open source, and developer tools to ensure content and advocacy efforts are relevant and impactful

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to a variety of audiences.
• Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Java).
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and open source ecosystems.
• Passion for helping others learn and succeed.
• Comfortable creating content (written, video, or live presentations).
• Basic understanding of Git, GitHub, and collaborative development workflows.
• Passion for hands-on learning
• Experience with open source AI projects

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Familiarity with IBM Watson, watsonx, or other AI platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure).
• Experience with developer communities or technical evangelism.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Client-provided location(s): Alice, TX

Job ID: IBM-71789

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-11-12T18:49:43