Also called: Developer Relations Engineer, DevRel
Helps programmers love and use a company's tools by teaching, building demos, and speaking at events.
You livestream yourself building a demo app, write a tutorial, and fly to a conference to give a talk. Then you bring developers' complaints back to the product team.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in CS or strong coding background plus communication skills.
Ways in: 4-year college, Self-taught. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Computer Science, Communications.
Growing faster than average. Popular at AI and developer-tool companies.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI writes demos and docs, and AI agents now pick tools too; live teaching and community trust stay human.
Classes: AP Computer Science A, Speech or debate, Journalism.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-1252.
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