Director of Open Source & Open Developer Platform

Faraday Future, El Segundo, California +1

The role

We are seeking a Director of Open Source & Open Developer Platform to help lead the strategy, execution, and growth of EAI Brain’s open source ecosystem and developer platform.

Reporting directly to the Head of the department, this role will co-own the development of the EAI Brain SDK, APIs, developer tools, Skill Store ecosystem, and open source initiatives, while driving cross-functional collaboration across Engineering, Product, Operations, Legal, and Platform teams.

This is a high-impact leadership role at the forefront of embodied AI and intelligent robotics, offering the opportunity to help build a next-generation developer ecosystem and open platform from the ground up.

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Director of Open Source & Open Developer Platform

Faraday Future, El Segundo, California +1

Posted pay

$200K–$250K

a year

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This base pay is near the median for director-level infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in other US places.

Median: $230K a year
Other jobs in the group: 79

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Location: El Segundo, California +1
Work type: Not given
Level: Director+, manager
Experience: 10+ years
Skills in the job text: AWS
ROS
Posted: Jun 22, 2026
Last check: 2 h ago
Job type: Infra, platform & SRE, Inference & ML systems, ML / AI engineering

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Faraday Future

Open tech jobs: 14
With posted pay: 86%
Median posted base: $153K–$180K

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The role

We are seeking a Director of Open Source & Open Developer Platform to help lead the strategy, execution, and growth of EAI Brain’s open source ecosystem and developer platform.

What you need

Skill Store & Platform Operations

Support the development and operation of the Skill Store ecosystem, including developer onboarding, Skill submission workflows, certification standards, and platform operations.
Drive platform usability, developer experience, and ecosystem scalability.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
10+ years of experience in developer platforms, open source programs, or developer ecosystem roles, with 3+ years in a senior leadership or people-management capacity.
Deep expertise in open source software governance: licensing models (Apache 2.0, MIT, GPL), contributor agreements (CLA/DCO), GitHub organization management, and contributor community building.
Strong technical foundation in software architecture and API/SDK design; able to engage credibly with and constructively challenge engineering teams on platform decisions.
Demonstrated experience building or scaling a developer ecosystem, marketplace, or platform — in developer tools, IoT, robotics, cloud infrastructure, or adjacent domains.
Excellent cross-functional leadership in a matrix organization: proven track record operating across product, engineering, legal, and business teams in a high-velocity environment — including managing dotted-line or shared-service reporting relationships without direct authority.
Demonstrated marketplace or two-sided platform thinking: ability to balance developer supply-side and OEM/user demand-side needs simultaneously, with an understanding of how cross-side network effects are built and sustained.
Commercial acumen in platform economics: experience owning or co-owning take-rate models, developer incentive programs, or marketplace unit economics at a meaningful scale.
Experience designing or operating a Trust & Safety or App Review function, including risk-tiered content policies, IP enforcement workflows, and incident response — preferably in a context where product failures carry real-world safety consequences.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; Mandarin Chinese working proficiency strongly preferred given the team’s bilingual operating environment.

Director of Open Source & Open Developer Platform

The role

Director of Open Source & Open Developer Platform

The role

What you need

Skill Store & Platform Operations

Basic Qualifications

Nice to have

Open Source & Developer Ecosystem

SDK, API & Developer Platform

Platform Governance & Commercialization

Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Pay and benefits

Salary Range

Perks + Benefits

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