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Principal Developer Advocate, AI

Temporal

San Francisco, CA · full time · Senior

$260,000 – $325,000

Listed on Temporal’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

A senior practitioner role building trust and influence for Temporal in the AI engineering community through technical content, conference speaking, and ecosystem partnerships. This suits experienced AI engineers who've shipped production systems and have an established voice or following in the field.

Our summary, not Temporal’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

What they ask for

Required

  • 8+ years as a software engineer
  • Recent focus on AI engineering in production
  • Shipped AI products or features to production
  • Demonstrable visibility in AI engineering community
  • Track record of compelling technical talks and writing
  • Production AI tooling and patterns knowledge
  • AI agent frameworks knowledge
  • Major model-provider APIs knowledge

Nice to have

  • Strong public platform or recognizable online presence
  • Production AI systems operational experience
  • AI agent framework or toolkit contributions
  • Familiarity with Temporal
  • Open-source contributions in AI or distributed systems
  • Prior Developer Relations or Developer Advocacy experience

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