Principal Developer Advocate (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Developer Advocate (AI): Building developer trust in reliable, long-running AI applications by shipping technical content and community engagement with an accent on production AI systems, agentic orchestration reliability, and developer experience. Focus on creating standout AI engineering resources and channeling community feedback into the AI strategy and roadmap.

Company

Temporal builds open source primitives for reliable, long-running, stateful AI applications.

What you will do

• Represent Temporal at industry conferences, meetups, and workshops with talks on reliability, state, and orchestration in agentic systems.
• Create high-quality technical content (blogs, tutorials, guides, talks, and videos) for AI engineers and backend developers.
• Build relationships with AI framework maintainers, open-source communities, and ecosystem partners.
• Gather feedback from AI engineers and feed it back to Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap and improve developer experience.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to align content and engagement with AI releases and go-to-market strategy.
• Informally mentor peers and raise the bar for AI engineering skills.

Requirements

• 8+ years as a software engineer, with most recent experience as an AI engineer focused on getting AI into production.
• Proven track record shipping AI products/features to production (building, evaluating, deploying, and operating real systems).
• Demonstrable visibility in the AI engineering community (e.g., popular technical content, widely used open-source, or frequent conference speaking).
• Strong record of compelling technical talks and writing that establishes credibility with aspiring AI engineers.
• Hands-on depth in production AI tools and patterns: LLMs and agents, retrieval-augmented generation, function calling, evaluation, and observability; working knowledge of AI agent frameworks and major model-provider APIs.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.

Nice to have

• Experience carrying the pager for production AI systems.
• Experience building or contributing to AI agent frameworks/toolkits.
• Familiarity with Temporal, including building AI products/features using Temporal.
• Open-source contributions or stewardship in AI or distributed systems communities.
• Prior Developer Relations/Developer Advocacy experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited PTO with 12 holidays plus 2 floating holidays.
• 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision.
• 401K plan (Empower 401K) and disability/life insurance coverage.
• Learning & development and professional membership support, plus internet stipend and in-home office setup support.
• Occasional travel for company events and team offsites.

Hiring process

• Interviews to assess experience, knowledge, expertise, and fit for the role level.
• Compensation evaluation considers prior experience and market location.