Principal Developer Advocate, AI

temporal; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision

401K Plan

Work from Home Meals

Professional Development Funding

Job summary

temporal is looking for a Principal Developer Advocate, AI in San Francisco. This senior role involves building trust in the AI community through impactful content and community engagement, helping to shape Temporal's AI strategy.

You'll represent temporal at events, create influential content, and mentor peers to elevate AI engineering standards. Strong experience in AI development and community visibility is required.

Compensation ranges from $260,000 to $325,000, plus perks like unlimited PTO and comprehensive healthcare.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on AI.
• Track record of shipping AI products to production.
• Existing visibility in the AI engineering community.

Responsibilities

• Represent Temporal at conferences and workshops.
• Create high-quality content for AI engineers.
• Build relationships with AI framework maintainers.

Skills

AI product development

Python

TypeScript

Technical writing

Community engagement

Job description

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!

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

Compensation:

• The estimated pay range for this role is $260,000 - $325,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.

Employee benefits and perks below are for full‑time employees, part‑time or temporary positions are excluded.

• 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)
• Empower 401K Plan
• 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 . Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in‑home office setup (in addition to company‑issued hardware), professional memberships, work‑from‑home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.

Travel

Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in‑person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.

• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000 / Year In‑Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness

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.

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