Principal Developer Advocate, AI

• About Us
• Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable
• help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox
• are building the team that will make that happen.
• Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
• Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking
• want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities
• want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
• Summary:
• The Principal Developer Advocate, AI is a senior individual-contributor practitioner who serves as a crucial voice for Temporal in the AI engineering community. You’ll earn developers’ trust in this emerging discipline by shipping standout technical content, building real relationships across the AI ecosystem
• sharing what you’ve learned from your hard-won perspective as someone who has built and operated production AI systems.
• The world's best AI products are built on Temporal. We give developers the primitives to build reliable, long-running, stateful AI applications
• scale them faster than ever before. In this role, you'll help bring Temporal to the next generation of AI engineers. As a senior individual contributor, you'll be a leader in the developer community and within our company, contributing to our AI strategy and roadmap

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
• 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
• 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.
• Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location
• job level assessed during the interview process.
• Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.
• U.S. 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!
• International Benefits
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country
• are issued in partnership with Remote.com . Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals
• access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
• Travel
• Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites
• other meaningful moments that bring us together.
• Additional Perks
• $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
• Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status
• any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit
• business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
• Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity
• reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs
• activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
• We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.