Senior Software Engineer, Voice Agent
Decagon•San Francisco, CA
35d•Onsite
About The Position
As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Voice Agent, you will design and improve the systems that power Decagon’s live voice agents. You will work across streaming audio, transcription, synthesis, timing, and real time orchestration. You will collaborate closely with Research to bring new models to production, with Infra to optimize performance, and with Product to unlock new conversational capabilities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Proficiency with Typescript, Python, and asynchronous programming
- Experience with asynchronous or streaming systems
- Strong debugging skills across audio, networking, or real time pipelines
- An interest in speech, audio, or multimodal AI
Nice To Haves
- Experience with speech recognition or synthesis systems
- Experience with VAD, streaming protocols, or other real time audio systems
- Experience designing or maintaining LLM driven applications
- Experience optimizing performance for low latency use cases
Responsibilities
- Build the real time voice runtime that powers natural customer conversations
- Improve speech understanding and synthesis quality while keeping latency low
- Design systems that manage timing, interruptions, and streaming audio reliably
- Create tools that make voice interactions easy to debug, test, and observe at scale
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Take what you need vacation policy
- Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office to keep you at your best
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
