Staff Software Engineer, AI Foundations (AI Agent Optimization) is open at Temporal in United States (Remote). The posting gives a salary of $170K - $278K. Posted on Oct 15, 2026, and still on Temporal’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
, you will lead our agent optimization efforts. You will design tools and mechanisms to help Temporal users build agents that are optimized for token spend and response time while maintaining result quality. Model routing is a first step, but represents the tip of the iceberg of techniques that we can apply. For example, multi-agent architecture, cache policy, and context management are all relevant. Candidates for…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Temporal’s careers page.
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