General Employee
Senior AI Engineer
$170K–$220K
San Francisco · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
About the job
Own and improve production systems for real-time AI employees that handle customer calls, messages, bookings, and business workflows.
What you'll do
- Design, ship, and harden real-time voice agents, including workflows, handoffs, memory, and recovery paths.
- Build reliable integrations and evaluations for customer-facing business workflows.
- Diagnose production behavior and improve observability, security, data handling, and failure recovery.
What they ask for
- Experience owning production LLM, agent, real-time, voice, or similarly failure-sensitive systems.
- Strong TypeScript, backend, API, data-modeling, and distributed-systems judgment.
- Rigor in evaluation, observability, incident diagnosis, and production verification.
- Care with privacy, security, and the consequences of agents acting for a business.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with LiveKit, WebRTC, SIP, OpenAI Realtime, or telephony.
Pay
$170K – $220K USD base salary
Tools
LiveKit, OpenAI Realtime, Twilio, SIP, Supabase, Next.js, TypeScript, WebRTC
AI focus
Build and operate reliable real-time AI voice agents that take actions in customer business workflows; evaluate, monitor, and verify their production behavior.
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