Senior Software Engineer (Agentic Systems)

Tavus•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Agentic Systems) to be a technical driver on the Tavus Conversational Video Interface (CVI) product. This is a very hands-on role focused primarily on adding agentic capabilities to our Replicas. This isn't your first rodeo - you've tackled ambiguous problems head on, you have strong opinions about architecture and interface design, and you know how to ship polished, reliable software. You'll work closely with product, and engineering leadership to build the future of human-computer interfaces, fast.

Requirements

You are fluent in Python and have great knowledge of open-source agent frameworks
You have deep experience building complex production-grade LLM-based agentic systems
You're comfortable out of your normal comfort zone and are willing to learn on the fly
You thrive in an ambiguous and fast changing space. The state of the art changes on a dime and you react fast
You bring a senior mindset: you set direction, own decisions, and get things over the finish line
You communicate the complex with incredible clarity and leverage your communication abilities to teach others

Nice To Haves

Experience with GPU management
Extensive experience with low level systems
Experience with decentralized systems

Responsibilities

Jump into our existing CVI codebase and own the development and delivery of new agentic systems and features (ex: RAG, Memories, MCP, Async task management, job scheduling)
Help shape the future for how users interact with our real-time systems by partnering closely with our Research and Conversational Video Interface teams.
Contribute across the full product stack as needed, including dipping into research
Work with the team to nail the observability and reliability of these systems