Otter.ai
Software Engineer, AI Agent & LLM
$155K–$185K
Mountain View, CA · Full-time · Posted Jul 22, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of AI Agent engineering, machine learning engineering, or related experience.
About the job
Build and improve Otter’s conversational AI agents, knowledge engine, evaluation systems, and shared infrastructure for reliable production use.
What you'll do
- Build AI-agent experiences and improve knowledge extraction, annotation, and indexing.
- Develop evaluation datasets, automated graders, regression tests, and release gates; diagnose failures across the AI stack.
- Build agent infrastructure and use production signals to improve quality, reliability, latency, and cost.
What they ask for
- Strong backend or distributed-systems engineering skills.
- Hands-on experience building and shipping AI-agent or LLM-powered products.
- Strong focus on AI quality and experience evaluating nondeterministic systems.
- Ability to use data, traces, logs, and qualitative examples to identify and resolve complex failures.
Nice to have
- Demonstrated ability to use coding agents effectively while rigorously reviewing and controlling output quality.
Pay
$155,000 to $185,000 USD per year (base salary)
AI focus
Build AI-agent experiences and LLM-powered products; advance a conversational knowledge engine; develop quality evaluations and shared agent infrastructure.
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