Staff Software Engineer, AI Foundations – AI Agent Optimization
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Staff engineer optimizing AI agents for Temporal’s open-source workflow platform. Designing reliable agentic coding systems that reduce token spend and response time while preserving quality.
Responsibilities:
- 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
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