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Senior Software Engineer, Voice AI
$180K–$230K
New York, NY · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years building production software; voice or conversational AI production experience is requested, with real-time or distributed systems described as ideal.
About the job
Build and operate Call Guard’s real-time voice AI that screens unknown callers, identifies scams, and routes legitimate calls to users.
What you'll do
- Design and ship production voice agents; own components of the voice AI stack and help shape its architecture.
- Reduce conversational latency and build defenses against adversarial callers, including voice-cloning attacks.
- Integrate models and maintain telephony, VoIP routing, and cloud infrastructure for the voice agent.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building production software.
- Hands-on experience shipping voice or conversational AI products in production.
- Production experience with LLMs and agent frameworks; experience optimizing low-latency real-time systems.
- Strong Python and/or Go, scalable secure backend/API experience, and cloud infrastructure experience (AWS or GCP, containerized deployments).
Nice to have
- Telephony, VoIP, SIP, carrier-level routing, WebRTC, or real-time media experience.
- Background in speech recognition, signal processing, audio engineering, adversarial ML, AI safety, or anti-fraud systems.
Pay
$180K – $230K USD base salary; bonus and equity offered, amounts not stated.
Tools
Whisper, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Cartesia, LiveKit, Pipecat, LangChain, AWS
AI focus
Develop real-time voice agents that screen callers, classify intent, block scams, reduce conversational latency, and resist adversarial AI callers; evaluate and integrate LLMs, speech models, and agent frameworks. Daily use of AI tools is expected.
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