Temporal Technologies
via Ashby
Principal Developer Advocate, AI
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What we know
Is it still open?
Confirmed still open
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How old is it?
Posted 95d ago
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Is it remote?
Marked remote on the employer's board
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Who may apply?
San Francisco, California
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Pay not stated
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The listing
Role Summary
The Principal Developer Advocate, AI is a senior individual-contributor practitioner who serves as a crucial voice for Temporal in the AI engineering community. You’ll earn developers’ trust in this emerging discipline by shipping standout technical content, building real relationships across the AI ecosystem, and sharing what you’ve learned from your hard-won perspective as someone who has built and operated production AI systems.
The world's best AI products are built on Temporal. We give developers the primitives to build reliable, long-running, stateful AI applications, and scale them faster than ever before. In this role, you'll help bring Temporal to the next generation of AI engineers. As a senior individual contributor, you'll be a leader in the developer community and within our company, contributing to our AI strategy and roadmap.
What You’ll Do
Represent Temporal at industry conferences, meetups, and workshops, delivering compelling talks on reliability, state, and orchestration in agentic systems
Create influential, high-quality content for AI engineers and backend developers (blogs, tutorials, guides, talks, and videos) that demonstrates Temporal's essential role in reliable AI systems
Forge strong ties with AI framework maintainers, open-source communities, and ecosystem partners to strengthen Temporal's position as critical infrastructure for AI
Act as a key community voice, gathering feedback from AI engineers and channeling it back to Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap and sharpen Temporal's developer experience
Work closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to align content and engagement with new releases and our go-to-market strategy in the AI space
Informally mentor peers and raise the bar for your team's collective AI engineering skills
What You’ll Bring
8+ years as a software engineer, most recently as an AI engineer with a clear focus on getting AI into production
A track record of shipping AI products or features to production. You understand the discipline of building, evaluating, deploying, and operating real systems, not just prototyping
Existing, demonstrable visibility in the AI engineering community. What that looks like could vary: a popular blog, YouTube channel, podcast, widely used open-source project, social media following, or your role as a frequent conference speaker
A track record of compelling technical talks and writing which clearly establishes your credibility in the eyes of an aspiring AI engineer
Hands-on depth with the tools and patterns of production AI: LLMs and agents, retrieval-augmented generation, function calling, evaluation and observability, and inference in real systems, including working knowledge of AI agent frameworks and the major model-provider APIs
You’re likely proficient in Python and/or TypeScript; polyglots who pick up languages easily are welcome
Curiosity that keeps you on top of rapidly evolving AI research and tooling
Nice to Have
A strong public platform. The kind that makes you recognizable online or when attending a conference
Experience carrying the pager for production AI systems
Experience building or contributing to AI agent frameworks or toolkits
Familiarity with Temporal. Even better: experience building AI products or features using Temporal
Open-source contributions or stewardship in the AI or distributed systems communities
Prior experience in a Developer Relations or Developer Advocacy role
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. 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.