Staff Software Engineer, AI Foundations

What You Will Do

• Work as a software engineer maintaining and expanding a deep understanding of agentic coding.
• Design and build agentic coding systems that deliver high-quality outputs.
• Develop a deep understanding of AI application development patterns and techniques, including emerging approaches and architectures.
• Take end-to-end ownership of new features, working with other teams to deliver exceptional reliability and a great developer experience.
• Work with multiple programming languages: Python, TypeScript, Java, Go.
• Serve as a domain expert on AI design patterns, collaborating with field staff to provide best-practices and canonical examples.
• Work directly with our developer community to debug issues that need expert attention and get feedback on Temporal features and APIs.
• Write public technical documentation describing Temporal concepts and APIs.
• Go the extra mile to support a customer in need, on the rare occasion that our teams’ engineering expertise is needed.
• Travel to meet your coworkers for a week once or twice a year.
• Attend the occasional developer conference to talk about how great Temporal is (optional).

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of professional work experience.
• Proven experience in optimizing AI systems using both machine learning and systems techniques.
• Experience and passion for harnessing generative AI, particularly for agents and coding.
• A deep appreciation for how to use AI to improve quality, not only to increase quantity.
• A sense of taste in code and software development practice. Your approach should be opinionated and thoughtful, but not dogmatic.
• Fluency in multiple programming languages, and an affinity for learning new ones.
• Deep experience with concurrent programming—you should know how to use mutexes, atomics, and other concurrency primitives safely.
• Experience designing APIs and writing documentation for publicly-available libraries or modules.
• Strong technical communication skills—written and verbal—in English.
• BS or MS in Computer Science (or a closely-related degree), or equivalent work experience writing production-grade software.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Temporal’s programming model (e.g. you’ve written an app on Temporal).
• A track record of open source software contributions, including contributions to 3rd party libraries.
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep background in machine learning, model training, data science, or machine learning systems.
• Graduate degree in Computer Science.

Compensation

The estimated pay range for this role is $224,000 - $302,400. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets.