Temporal

Temporal

Staff Software Engineer, AI Foundations (Agent Optimization)

United States and Canada - Remote Opportunity · Staff+ · Part-time

Sponsorship not specified$224k-$302kDetected 13 hours ago
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About the role

  • We're curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
  • Summary We have an opening to hire a Staff Software Engineer - Agent Optimization Temporal provides a reliable foundation powering AI leaders such as OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, and others.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Serve as a domain expert on AI design patterns, collaborating with field staff to provide best-practices and canonical examples.
  • Go the extra mile to support a customer in need, on the rare occasion that our teams' engineering expertise is needed.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional work experience.
  • Deep experience with concurrent programming-you should know how to use mutexes, atomics, and other concurrency primitives safely.
  • BS or MS in Computer Science (or a closely-related degree), or equivalent work experience writing production-grade software.
  • Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.

Nice to have

  • 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.
  • Graduate degree in Computer Science.

Skills

  • Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Compensation

  • The estimated pay range for this role is $224,000 - $302,400
  • Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets.

Benefits

  • 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)
  • Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
  • International Benefits
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com.

Company info

  • Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer's toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
  • Our values guide us -they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We're curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
  • Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
  • We have an opening to hire a Staff Software Engineer - Agent Optimization
  • Temporal provides a reliable foundation powering AI leaders such as OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, and others.
  • Its adoption is expanding to users spanning a broad range of AI applications ranging from agents to data pipelines and everything in between.
  • The mission of the AI Foundations team is to accelerate Temporal adoption across the entire ecosystem.
  • Our approach combines a deep understanding of use cases with rigorous application of computer systems and software design principles.
  • In this role, you will lead our agent optimization efforts.
  • Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster.
  • We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer's toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
  • Our values guide us -they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact.

Equal opportunity

  • 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.
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