Staff Software Engineer, AI Foundations – AI Agent Optimization

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $224k - $302.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Temporal Technologies

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

📣 Marketing

💰 $75M Series B on 2023-02

Consulting • Manufacturing • Marketing

Temporal Technologies is a company that provides a platform for durable execution, helping developers build resilient applications by managing failures, network outages, and long-running processes. Their technology abstracts away the complexity of building scalable distributed systems, allowing developers to focus on delivering reliable systems faster. Temporal simplifies code by eliminating recovery logic, callbacks, and timers, making software more durable and fault tolerant. The platform supports a wide variety of applications, from transaction processing to applied AI, and is favored by developers for its ease of use and reliability. Temporal is open-source and offers both self-hosted and managed cloud services in multiple regions, enabling scalable, serverless application development.

📋 Description

• Lead agent optimization efforts for Temporal users • Design tools and mechanisms that optimize AI agents for token spend and response time while maintaining result quality • Design and build trustworthy agentic coding systems that deliver high-quality outputs • Develop expertise in AI application development patterns, emerging approaches, and architectures • Own new features end-to-end and collaborate with other teams to deliver reliability and developer experience • Maintain and expand understanding of agentic coding • Serve as a domain expert on AI design patterns and provide best practices and canonical examples • Work directly with the developer community to debug expert-level issues and gather feedback on Temporal features and APIs • Write public technical documentation for Temporal concepts and APIs • Provide occasional engineering expertise to customers • Travel to meet coworkers once or twice a year • Attend occasional developer conferences to discuss Temporal (optional)

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional work experience • Proven experience optimizing AI systems using machine learning and systems techniques • Experience and passion for generative AI, particularly agents and coding • Understanding of using AI to improve quality, not only quantity • Fluency in multiple programming languages and ability to learn new ones • Deep experience with concurrent programming, including mutexes, atomics, and other concurrency primitives • Experience designing APIs and documenting publicly available libraries or modules • Strong written and verbal technical communication skills in English • BS or MS in Computer Science or a closely related degree, or equivalent work experience writing production-grade software • Familiarity with Temporal’s programming model (nice to have) • Open source software contributions (nice to have) • Large-scale distributed systems architecture and design experience (nice to have) • Background in machine learning, model training, data science, or machine learning systems (nice to have) • Graduate degree in Computer Science (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity plan • 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 • Learning & Development perks • Lifestyle Spending account • Home Office Setup • Professional Memberships • Work-from-home meals • Internet Stipend • Access to the Calm app for mental wellness • International PTO and benefits vary by country and are issued in partnership with Remote.com • Occasional travel for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments