Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Temporal Technologies is an open source programming model company on a mission to simplify code and improve developer experience. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their AI Foundations team to accelerate Temporal adoption across various AI applications by designing and implementing reliable coding systems and collaborating with the developer community.
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
- Design and implement Temporal AI SDK features supporting a broad variety of frameworks and libraries
- 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
- Experience and passion for harnessing generative AI, particularly for agents and coding
- A deep understanding of how to use AI to increase 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
- A track record of open source software contributions, including contributions to 3rd party libraries
- 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)
- Experience building agents or other AI applications
- Background in machine learning, model training, data science, or machine learning systems
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems
- Graduate degree in Computer Science
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
- 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!
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com.
- 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, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
- Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
- $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
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