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You will be the primary face of Zyphra to the global developer community, building and scaling our presence on GitHub, Discord, X, and at the industry events that matter most. This is not a content production role. You are a technically credible practitioner who is also a natural community builder: someone developers trust, follow, and build with.\nThere is an early community already forming around Zyphra’s models. Your job is to find it, accelerate it, structure it, and turn it into one of the most active open-source AI communities in the field. 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