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AI Agent Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$200K - $300K/yr

You'll build on top of LiveKit, design the orchestration layer, own the prompting strategy for millions of consumer interactions, and continuously improve voice-agent performance through rigorous ...

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$140K - $210K/yr (+ commission)

Experienced with LLMs, voice AI, or AI SDKs (Vercel AI SDK, Gemini, LiveKit). * Excited by marketplace dynamics like matching, routing, pricing, and network effects. * Maybe a former founder or lead ...

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$94K - $127K/yr

Experienced with LLMs, voice AI, or AI SDKs (Vercel AI SDK, Gemini, LiveKit). * Excited by marketplace dynamics like matching, routing, pricing, and network effects. * Maybe a former founder or lead ...

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$140K - $210K/yr

Experienced with LLMs, voice AI, or AI SDKs (Vercel AI SDK, Gemini, LiveKit). * Excited by marketplace dynamics like matching, routing, pricing, and network effects. * Maybe a former founder or lead ...

Senior AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$140 - $230/hr

Our current stack combines LiveKit, OpenAI Realtime, Twilio and SIP telephony, Supabase, Next.js services, and integrations with the calendars, CRMs, and operating systems our customers already use.

Own core backend work related to real time communication capabilities, including WebRTC, LiveKit, SFU architectures, or comparable media platforms. * Architect and implement cloud based, microservice ...

Responsibilities : • Deploy production voice agents within weeks using VAPI or Retell for quick prototyping and immediate business impact • Transition to custom voice infrastructure with LiveKit ...

Partner with the voice team on real-time agent behavior (LiveKit + OpenAI Realtime) * Help optimize the omnichannel experience across SMS, voice, and email Who You Are * 2-4 years of full-stack ...

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$180K - $250K/yr

TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, React, Python, LiveKit, Deepgram, Redis, plus modern LLM and agent tooling (Anthropic/OpenAI SDKs, Vercel AI SDK, Mastra, Braintrust) Requirements * 3-8 years of full ...

Responsibilities : • Deploy production voice agents within weeks using VAPI or Retell for quick prototyping and immediate business impact • Transition to custom voice infrastructure with LiveKit ...

Software Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$140K - $180K/yr

Partner with the voice team on real-time agent behavior (LiveKit + OpenAI Realtime) * Help optimize the omnichannel experience across SMS, voice, and email Who You Are * 2-4 years of full-stack ...

Founding GenAI Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$141K/yr

Build real-time voice agents (LiveKit, Pipecat, Twilio, Deepgram, ElevenLabs) that hold natural interviews at scale * Design agentic LLM workflows and agent harnesses on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google ...

Lead Backend Engineer

Washington, DC · On-site

$120 - $150/hr

Own core backend work related to real time communication capabilities, including WebRTC, LiveKit, SFU architectures, or comparable media platforms. * Architect and implement cloud based, microservice ...

Responsibilities : • Deploy production voice agents within weeks using VAPI or Retell for quick prototyping and immediate business impact • Transition to custom voice infrastructure with LiveKit ...

Founding Engineer

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$180 - $250/hr

TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, React, Python, LiveKit, Deepgram, Redis, plus modern LLM and agent tooling (Anthropic/OpenAI SDKs, Vercel AI SDK, Mastra, Braintrust) Requirements * 3-8 years of full ...

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

Austin, TX · Remote

$160K - $240K/yr

Work with technologies across real-time voice and AI infrastructure, including LiveKit, Temporal, STT/TTS systems, and LLM tooling . * Build reliable pipelines for telephony events, recordings ...

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AI Agent Engineer

Thomas Talent Network

New York, NY • On-site

$200K - $300K/yr

Full-time

Posted 28 days ago


Key responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the voice AI infrastructure using LiveKit and related systems.

  • Design and own the architecture of real-time voice-agent systems, including orchestration, state management, latency optimization, prompting, and reliability.

  • Own the end-to-end prompting strategy, including conversation flows, tone, compliance-safe phrasing, guardrails, and handling edge cases.


Job description

About the Company

A fast-growing, YC-backed seed-stage startup (founded 2024) using generative AI to automate debt collection — a $35B US market. Its AI agents already outperform human collectors 2x at a fraction of the cost, doing 10M+ calls per month. With a team of five, it scaled to a $2M annualized run rate in just a few months, targeting $10M ARR this year.

About the Role

Building its voice AI agent infrastructure in-house and needs an AI Agent Engineer to own it end-to-end. You'll build on top of LiveKit, design the orchestration layer, own the prompting strategy for millions of consumer interactions, and continuously improve voice-agent performance through rigorous testing and iteration. A highly technical role for someone equally comfortable building production-grade systems and writing the conversational AI logic that powers real-world outcomes. Deep voice-AI experience is ideal; a strong infrastructure engineer who is analytical and business-minded is also a fit.

What You'll Own
  • Build the voice AI infrastructure in LiveKit from the ground up
  • Design and own the architecture of real-time voice-agent systems: orchestration, state management, latency optimization, prompting, reliability
  • Own the end-to-end prompting strategy: conversation flows, tone, compliance-safe phrasing, guardrails, edge-case handling
  • Build and maintain testing/evaluation frameworks (A/B testing, regression testing, conversation QA, benchmarking, KPI reporting)
  • Write, expand, and continuously improve prompting to cover more real-world scenarios
  • Iterate on performance data and call outcomes to improve containment, conversion, liquidation rates, and satisfaction
  • Optimize ASR, STT, TTS, turn-taking, interruption handling, and state transitions
  • Build scalable systems/tooling for millions of voice interactions; migrate clients off legacy voice infra while preserving customizations
  • Work with product, operations, and leadership to translate business goals into high-performing agent behavior
Must-Have
  • 2+ years in voice AI, conversational AI, prompt engineering, speech systems, or related agentic workflows
  • 3+ years in platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering
  • Strong experience with Node.js, AWS, and SQL
  • Experience building and shipping production systems in a startup or similarly fast-paced environment
  • Experience with voice orchestration platforms or agent frameworks such as LiveKit or equivalent
  • Strong prompt-writing instincts; designs clear, effective, resilient conversational flows
  • Strong analytical skills; ties technical work directly to business outcomes and ROI
  • Excellent written and verbal English (required for the prompt-engineering component)
  • High ownership and strong work ethic
  • Based in or willing to relocate to NYC; in-person 4–5 days per week
Nice-to-Have
  • SIP trunking, telephony infrastructure, and production voice systems
  • Real-time audio pipelines, call routing, carrier/telephony integrations
  • Speech infrastructure in production environments
  • Domain knowledge in debt collection, financial services, or regulated consumer communication
Details

Employment: Full-Time  |  Location: Manhattan, NY — In-person (4–5 days/week)  |  Experience: 3–10 years
Compensation: $200,000–$300,000 / year + equity. No visa sponsorship.