Temporal Technologies

Staff Software Engineer, AI Foundations (Agent Optimization)

United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$224k-$302kDetected 11 days 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.
Its adoption is expanding to users spanning a broad range of AI applications ranging from agents to data pipelines and everything in between.

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.
Experience and passion for harnessing generative AI, particularly for agents and coding.
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.

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

The estimated pay range for this role is $224,000 - $302,400

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.
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

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.
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.
Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future.

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