Principal Developer Advocate - AI

What You’ll Do

• Represent Temporal at industry conferences, meetups, and workshops, delivering compelling talks on reliability, state, and orchestration in agentic systems
• Create influential, high-quality content for AI engineers and backend developers (blogs, tutorials, guides, talks, and videos) that demonstrates Temporal's essential role in reliable AI systems
• Forge strong ties with AI framework maintainers, open-source communities, and ecosystem partners to strengthen Temporal's position as critical infrastructure for AI
• Act as a key community voice, gathering feedback from AI engineers and channeling it back to Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap and sharpen Temporal's developer experience
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to align content and engagement with new releases and our go-to-market strategy in the AI space
• Informally mentor peers and raise the bar for your team's collective AI engineering skills

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years as a software engineer, most recently as an AI engineer with a clear focus on getting AI into production
• A track record of shipping AI products or features to production. You understand the discipline of building, evaluating, deploying, and operating real systems, not just prototyping
• Existing, demonstrable visibility in the AI engineering community. What that looks like could vary: a popular blog, YouTube channel, podcast, widely used open-source project, social media following, or your role as a frequent conference speaker
• A track record of compelling technical talks and writing which clearly establishes your credibility in the eyes of an aspiring AI engineer
• Hands-on depth with the tools and patterns of production AI: LLMs and agents, retrieval-augmented generation, function calling, evaluation and observability, and inference in real systems, including working knowledge of AI agent frameworks and the major model-provider APIs
• You’re likely proficient in Python and/or TypeScript; polyglots who pick up languages easily are welcome
• Curiosity that keeps you on top of rapidly evolving AI research and tooling

Nice to Have

• A strong public platform. The kind that makes you recognizable online or when attending a conference
• Experience carrying the pager for production AI systems
• Experience building or contributing to AI agent frameworks or toolkits
• Familiarity with Temporal. Even better: experience building AI products or features using Temporal
• Open-source contributions or stewardship in the AI or distributed systems communities
• Prior experience in a Developer Relations or Developer Advocacy role

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $260,000 - $325,000
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
• 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
• AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
• Empower 401K Plan
• Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness