Decagon · 10 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Voice Agent
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$300K/yr - $375K/yr
8+ years expDecagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering brands to deliver concierge customer experiences. As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Voice Agent, you will lead the architecture and evolution of Decagon’s voice platform, driving projects that enhance audio quality and responsiveness across millions of interactions.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AISoftware
Responsibilities
Own the architecture of Decagon’s real-time voice runtime and shape its long-term roadmap
Lead initiatives that improve speech understanding, synthesis quality, and conversational timing
Define reliability, testing, and observability standards for live voice interactions
Build frameworks that make voice systems easy to debug, measure, and iterate on
Mentor senior engineers and help expand the technical culture of the Voice group
Qualification
Required
8+ years of engineering experience with significant technical leadership
Expertise in real-time systems, streaming pipelines, or audio-based applications
Ability to define architectural direction and lead cross-functional projects
Strong debugging skills across audio, networking, and model-driven systems
Experience mentoring engineers and influencing engineering standards
Preferred
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
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
Company
Decagon
Decagon is a conversational AI platform that provides a centralized AI engine to resolve issues in any language and across all channels.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$231MKey Investors
Bain Capital VenturesAccelAndreessen Horowitz
2025-06-23Series C· $131M
2024-10-15Series B· $65M
2024-06-18Series A· $30M
Leadership Team
Jesse Zhang
CEO / Co-Founder
Ashwin Sreenivas
Co-Founder
Recent News
2025-11-04
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