Staff Software Engineer, Temporal

• 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

Desirable

• We have an opening to hire a Staff Software Engineer - AI SDK
• As a member of the AI SDK team, you will be creating building blocks to support the expanding ecosystem of AI applications
• Under the hood, non-trivial AI applications quickly become distributed systems
• Fault tolerance and other challenges quickly become evident in tasks requiring reasoning, tool calls, memory management, human-in-the loop interactivity, and ambient or background processing
• The AI SDK team is pushing to keep Temporal at the forefront of AI applications
• Because the landscape is constantly changing, we engage heavily in prototyping to ensure that the abstractions we develop meet the needs of emerging applications
• We also ensure that Temporal integrates well with leading AI frameworks and libraries
• You'll design and implement Temporal AI SDK features supporting a broad variety of frameworks and libraries
• Develop a deep understanding of AI application development techniques, including emerging approaches and architectures
• Work with multiple programming languages, primarily Python and TypeScript
• Make extensive use of AI coding tools, especially to ensure quality across a large number of integrations
• 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
• Work directly with our developer community to debug issues that need expert attention, and get feedback on Temporal SDK 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 AI SDK 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)