Staff Software Engineer - AI SDK

Who We Are

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. Our amazing user community provides us with real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience everywhere.

Backed by top VC firms, we have built a team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. Together, we collaborate cross-functionally, engage with and support our users to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform.

Temporal is growing and working towards building the best community. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for helping developer communities, open-source software, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!

We have an opening to hire a Staff Software Engineer - AI SDK.

Temporal provides durable execution, the systems foundation used for reliable AI at leaders such as OpenAI, Lovable, Replit, and many others. As a member of the AI SDK team, you will be creating building blocks to support the expanding ecosystem of AI applications.

Under the hood, non-trivial AI applications quickly become distributed systems. Fault tolerance and other challenges quickly become evident in tasks requiring reasoning, tool calls, memory management, human-in-the loop interactivity, and ambient or background processing. Temporal removes the complexity otherwise inherent in such applications, allowing simple code that works as intended every time.

The AI SDK team is pushing to keep Temporal at the forefront of AI applications. Because the landscape is constantly changing, we engage heavily in prototyping to ensure that the abstractions we develop meet the needs of emerging applications. We also ensure that Temporal integrates well with leading AI frameworks and libraries.

Most of Temporal’s work is open source—see for yourself here : https : / / github.com / temporalio  [new window]

What You Will Do

• 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.
• Write public technical documentation describing Temporal concepts and APIs.
• Go the extra mile to support a customer in need, on the rare occasion that AI SDK engineering expertise is needed.
• Travel to meet your coworkers for a week once or twice a year.
• Attend the occasional developer conference to talk about how great Temporal is (optional).

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Compensation

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.

U.S. Benefits

International Benefits

Additional Perks

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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