Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Temporal is an open-source company building a reliable programming foundation for developers and AI applications. The Staff Software Engineer will lead agent optimization efforts by designing and building systems that improve AI agent token efficiency, response time, and result quality. The role also includes owning features end to end, collaborating with developer communities, contributing to open-source software, and serving as an expert in AI design patterns.
Responsibilities
- Work as a software engineer
- Maintain and expand a deep understanding of agentic coding
- Design and build agentic coding systems that we can trust to deliver high-quality outputs
- Develop a deep understanding of AI application development patterns and techniques, including emerging approaches and architectures
- Take end-to-end ownership of new features, working with other teams to deliver exceptional reliability and a great developer experience
- Work with multiple programming languages: Python and TypeScript, Java, Go
- Serve as a domain expert on AI design patterns, collaborating with field staff to provide best-practices and canonical examples
- Work directly with our developer community to debug issues that need expert attention and get feedback on Temporal features and APIs
- Write public technical documentation describing Temporal concepts and APIs
- Go the extra mile to support a customer in need, on the rare occasion that our teams' engineering expertise is needed
- Travel to meet your coworkers for a week once or twice a year
- Attend the occasional developer conference to talk about how great Temporal is (optional)
Skills
- 8+ years of professional work experience
- Proven experience in optimizing AI systems using both machine learning and systems techniques
- Experience and passion for harnessing generative AI, particularly for agents and coding
- A deep appreciation for how to use AI to improve quality, not only to increase quantity
- A sense of taste in code and software development practice. Your approach should be opinionated and thoughtful, but not dogmatic
- Fluency in multiple programming languages, and an affinity for learning new ones
- Deep experience with concurrent programming-you should know how to use mutexes, atomics, and other concurrency primitives safely
- Experience designing APIs and writing documentation for publicly-available libraries or modules
- Strong technical communication skills-written and verbal-in English
- BS or MS in Computer Science (or a closely-related degree), or equivalent work experience writing production-grade software
- Familiarity with Temporal's programming model (e.g. you've written an app on Temporal)
- A track record of open source software contributions, including contributions to 3rd party libraries
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems
- Deep background in machine learning, model training, data science, or machine learning systems
- Graduate degree in Computer Science
Benefits
- This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
- Temporal is a fully-remote company.
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