Principal Developer Advocate, AI
Principal Developer Advocate who will build trust with the AI engineering community through production-focused technical content, talks, and ecosystem relationships. The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, a track record shipping AI systems, and strong expertise in production AI tooling and patterns.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Represent Temporal at industry conferences, meetups, and workshops, delivering talks on reliability, state, and orchestration in agentic systems.
- Create 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 relay it to Product and Engineering to influence the roadmap and developer experience.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales on releases and go-to-market initiatives in AI.
- Informally mentor peers and improve the team's AI engineering expertise.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, most recently focused on putting AI systems into production.
- Track record of shipping AI products or features to production, including building, evaluating, deploying, and operating real systems.
- Demonstrable visibility in the AI engineering community through content, open source, media, social platforms, or conference speaking.
- Strong technical speaking and writing abilities.
- Hands-on experience with production AI patterns, including LLMs, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, function calling, evaluation, observability, and inference.
- Working knowledge of AI agent frameworks and major model-provider APIs.
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
- Curiosity and ability to keep up with rapidly evolving AI research and tooling.
Nice to Have
- A strong public platform and recognizable online or conference presence.
- Experience carrying the pager for production AI systems.
- Experience building or contributing to AI agent frameworks or toolkits.
- Familiarity with Temporal, especially building AI products or features with it.
- Open-source contributions or stewardship in AI or distributed systems.
- Previous Developer Relations or Developer Advocacy experience.
Compensation
- Annual salary range: $182,400–$299,250.
Skills
Python, TypeScript, LLMs, AI Agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Function Calling, Ai Evaluation, Observability, Inference, Ai Agent Frameworks, Model-Provider Apis, Temporal, Open Source
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