Principal Developer Advocate, AI

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Represent Temporal at industry conferences, meetups, and workshops, delivering 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)
• ▹Forge strong ties with AI framework maintainers, open-source communities, and ecosystem partners
• ▹Act as a key community voice, gathering feedback from AI engineers and channeling it back to Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap
• ▹Work closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to align content and engagement with releases and go-to-market strategy
• ▹Informally mentor peers and raise the bar for the team's collective AI engineering skills

Requirements

• ▹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, understanding the discipline of building, evaluating, deploying, and operating real systems
• ▹Existing, demonstrable visibility in the AI engineering community (popular blog, YouTube channel, podcast, widely used open-source project, social media following, or frequent conference speaker)
• ▹A track record of compelling technical talks and writing that establishes credibility
• ▹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, AI agent frameworks, and major model-provider APIs
• ▹Likely proficient in Python and/or TypeScript; polyglots who pick up languages easily are welcome
• ▹Curiosity that keeps up with rapidly evolving AI research and tooling

Nice to have

• ▹A strong public platform that makes you recognizable online or at conferences
• ▹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

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan

About the company

The world's best AI products are built on Temporal. Temporal gives developers the primitives to build reliable, long-running, stateful AI applications, and scale them faster than ever before.