Principal Developer Advocate, AI

Role SummaryThe 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, and 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, and 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 DoRepresent Temporal at industry conferences, meetups, and workshops, delivering compelling talks on reliability, state, and orchestration in agentic systemsCreate 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 systemsForge strong ties with AI framework maintainers, open-source communities, and ecosystem partners to strengthen Temporal's position as critical infrastructure for AIAct 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 experienceWork closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to align content and engagement with new releases and our go-to-market strategy in the AI spaceInformally mentor peers and raise the bar for your team's collective AI engineering skillsWhat You’ll Bring8+ years as a software engineer, most recently as an AI engineer with a clear focus on getting AI into productionA track record of shipping AI products or features to production. You understand the discipline of building, evaluating, deploying, and operating real systems, not just prototypingExisting, 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 speakerA track record of compelling technical talks and writing which clearly establishes your credibility in the eyes of an aspiring AI engineerHands-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 APIsYou’re likely proficient in Python and/or TypeScript; polyglots who pick up languages easily are welcomeCuriosity that keeps you on top of rapidly evolving AI research and toolingNice to HaveA strong public platform. The kind that makes you recognizable online or when attending a conferenceExperience carrying the pager for production AI systemsExperience building or contributing to AI agent frameworks or toolkitsFamiliarity with Temporal. Even better: experience building AI products or features using TemporalOpen-source contributions or stewardship in the AI or distributed systems communitiesPrior experience in a Developer Relations or Developer Advocacy roleTemporal 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, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.Compensation Range: $182,400 - $299,250LocationSan Francisco, CaliforniaEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeRemoteDepartmentDeveloper RelationsCompensationUS - Tier 1Salary $228,000 – $299,250 • Offers EquityUS - Tier 2Salary $205,200 – $269,325 • Offers EquityUS - Tier 3Salary $182,400 – $239,400 • Offers EquityTier GuideCompensation 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, and job level assessed during the interview process.