Director of Engineering, Compute

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DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING, COMPUTE Companies at the frontier of the AI revolution run on Temporal. OpenAI runs on Temporal, handling millions of requests. Cursor runs its cloud coding agents on Temporal at over 50 million actions a day across 7M+ workflows, and more than a third of the pull requests its users merge now come from those agents. Lovable, Abridge, and Hebbia build their agents on it too. In the last year alone, AI-native companies executed 1.86 trillion actions on Temporal Cloud, and the curve is still bending upwards. Backed by a recent $550M Series E at a $12.55B valuation, we are building the durable execution layer the agentic era depends on. The Compute team owns the layer all of that runs on. We are looking for a Head of Engineering to lead the effort to make any aspects of Temporal's compute invisible to our customers, allowing them to focus on application layer innovation, while we handle the compute muck. This is a rare, build-the-foundation mandate: the compute substrate that the world's most demanding AI workloads will run on. We want a leader who has operated compute at planet scale, thinks in fleets, goodput, and cost-per-unit-of-compute, and pairs that with…