Decagon

Staff Research Engineer, Voice

Decagon

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $350,000 - $475,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Lead research and engineering efforts to improve core conversational capabilities in production, including instruction following, retrieval, memory, and long-horizon task completion
  • Build and iterate on end-to-end models and pipelines that optimize for quality, efficiency, and user experience
  • Partner with platform and product engineers to integrate new models into production systems
  • Break down ambiguous research ideas into clear, iterative milestones and roadmaps.
  • Mentor other researchers/engineers, set technical direction, and establish best practices for applied research and engineering

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering or research.
  • Prior experience post-training and deploying LLMs in production environments.
  • Fluency in Python and modern ML tooling (training, evaluation, data pipelines)
  • Track record of taking research ideas from prototype → reliable, measurable production impact
  • Ability to define a roadmap, break ambiguity into milestones, and lead cross-functional execution
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI engineeringML engineeringLLMs deploymentPythondata pipelinesmodel optimizationend-to-end modelsproduction systemsinstruction followingtask completion
Soft Skills
mentoringtechnical directionbest practicesroadmap definitioncross-functional executionbreaking ambiguityiterative milestonesleadershipcommunicationcollaboration