Temporal Technologies
Staff Software Engineer, AI Foundations (AI Agent Optimization)
United States (Remote) · Staff+
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About the role
- ROLE 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, 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.
- Model routing is a first step, but represents the tip of the iceberg of techniques that we can apply.
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
- Candidates for this role should have direct experience with this problem domain.
- 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.
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.
- Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- 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
- $224k-$295k
Benefits
- Proven experience in optimizing AI systems using both machine learning and systems techniques
- Fluency in multiple programming languages, and an affinity for learning new ones.
Company info
- We are an action-oriented group that loves to ship fast and solve customer problems.
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