Staff Software Engineer, Voice Agent

San Francisco · Remotefull timeRemote

senior

$200k–$400k

H1B: no

Decagon Staff Software Engineer at Decagon leading architecture and evolution of the voice platform. Drive projects improving timing, responsiveness, audio quality, and reliability across millions of interactions.

Responsibilities

As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Voice Agent, you will lead the architecture and evolution of Decagon’s voice platform. You will drive multi-quarter projects that improve timing, responsiveness, audio quality, and reliability across millions of interactions.
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

Expertise in real-time systemsStrong debugging skills across audioEven better if you haveExperience with VAD

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
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

Dental
Vision
401(k)
Equity/RSU
Parental Leave
Life Insurance

Company

Decagon

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Remote-friendly

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