Staff Software Engineer, Voice Agent
Decagon
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $300,000 - $430,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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
Requirements
- 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
- Even better if you have 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
real-time systemsstreaming pipelinesaudio-based applicationsdebuggingspeech recognitionspeech synthesisVADstreaming protocolsLLM-driven applicationslow-latency optimization
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringinfluencing engineering standardscross-functional project leadership