Principal Developer Advocate, AI

3 months, 1 week ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Temporal

Temporal

Temporal provides an open source durable execution platform that enables developers to create resilient applications capable of maintaining successful operations despite failures, network issues, and other disruptions.

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2019
$128M raised

Description

  • Represent Temporal at conferences, meetups, and workshops with talks on reliability, state, and orchestration in agentic systems.
  • Create high-quality technical content for AI engineers and backend developers, including blogs, tutorials, guides, talks, and videos.
  • Build relationships with AI framework maintainers, open-source communities, and ecosystem partners.
  • Gather feedback from AI engineers and channel it back to Product and Engineering to improve the roadmap and developer experience.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to align content and community engagement with AI releases and go-to-market efforts.
  • Contribute to Temporal's AI strategy and roadmap as a senior individual contributor.
  • Informally mentor peers and help raise the team’s AI engineering expertise.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, most recently as an AI engineer focused on production systems.
  • Proven track record of shipping AI products or features to production.
  • Demonstrable visibility in the AI engineering community through a blog, YouTube channel, podcast, open-source project, social following, or frequent conference speaking.
  • Strong record of technical talks and writing that establishes credibility with aspiring AI engineers.
  • Hands-on experience with production AI tools and patterns, including LLMs and agents, retrieval-augmented generation, function calling, evaluation and observability, and inference in real systems.
  • Working knowledge of AI agent frameworks and major model-provider APIs.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript is preferred, with polyglot language flexibility welcome.
  • Curiosity and up-to-date knowledge of rapidly evolving AI research and tooling.
  • Experience carrying the pager for production AI systems is preferred.
  • Experience building or contributing to AI agent frameworks or toolkits is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Temporal, especially for building AI products or features, is preferred.
  • Open-source contributions or stewardship in AI or distributed systems communities are preferred.
  • Prior experience in Developer Relations or Developer Advocacy is preferred.

Benefits

  • Estimated salary range of $260,000 to $325,000.
  • Eligibility to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
  • Unlimited PTO plus 12 holidays and 2 floating holidays for U.S. employees.
  • 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision premiums for U.S. employees.
  • 401(k) plan for U.S. employees.
  • Learning and development, professional membership, lifestyle spending, and in-home office setup perks.
  • Work-from-home meals, internet stipend, and company-issued hardware or equipment support.
  • Calm app subscription and mental wellness support.
  • International PTO and benefits provided through Remote.com, varying by country.
  • Occasional travel opportunities for company events and team offsites.

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