PrincipalDeveloperAdvocate,AI

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 A