Temporal is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer - AI SDK to create building blocks for the expanding ecosystem of AI applications, addressing the complexities of fault tolerance and other challenges in distributed AI systems.
Requirements
- 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.
- Familiarity with Temporal’s programming model (e.g. you’ve written an app on Temporal).
- Expedite building agents or other AI applications
- Background in machine learning, model training, data science, or machine learning systems.
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Other
- 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.
- Strong technical communication skills—written and verbal—in English.
