Job Summary:
Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering brands to deliver concierge customer experiences. As a Senior Research Engineer, you will build industry-leading conversational AI models and lead initiatives to enhance the agent's reliability, capability, and efficiency.
Responsibilities:
• Lead research and engineering efforts to improve core conversational capabilities in production, including instruction following, retrieval, memory, and long-horizon task completion
• Build and iterate on end-to-end models and pipelines that optimize for quality, efficiency, and user experience
• Partner with platform and product engineers to integrate new models into production systems
• Break down ambiguous research ideas into clear, iterative milestones and roadmaps.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering or research.
• Prior experience post-training and deploying LLMs in production environments.
• Fluency in Python and modern ML tooling (training, evaluation, data pipelines)
• Track record of taking research ideas from prototype → reliable, measurable production impact
Company:
Decagon provides a conversational AI platform for automating customer support across multiple channels. Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.