AI Agent Engineer

AI Agent Engineer
New York, NY · Hybrid (3+ days/week on-site) · Full-time
Compensation: $200K–$300K + 0.25%–1% equity About the Company Our client is an early-stage, venture-backed startup building AI voice agents that automate consumer financial-services operations at scale. Their agents already outperform traditional human benchmarks by roughly 2x at a fraction of the cost, and the product has strong, demonstrated traction with real production volume behind it. This is a small, deeply technical team where you'll work directly with the founders.
Founded 2024 · ~8 people · Industry: Financial Services, AI, Fintech The Role You'll own the client's voice AI infrastructure end to end — building a voice orchestration framework from the ground up on LiveKit that powers millions of live calls per month in production. What you'll be doing

• Design and build an in-house voice orchestration framework on LiveKit from scratch
• Migrate existing AI agents from the current voice provider onto the new system
• Own prompt engineering and conversation design for agents handling millions of consumer interactions
• Optimize real-time voice performance — latency, turn-taking, and state management — at production scale
• Build testing and evaluation frameworks to continuously improve agent quality and business outcomes

Tech stack: Node.js, AWS, SQL, LiveKit, Voice AI, ASR/STT/TTS, LLMs, Python Requirements

• 3–8 years in backend engineering with hands-on voice AI infrastructure work
• Track record building and shipping production voice AI systems at scale, using LiveKit or a comparable voice framework
• Has built voice or agentic systems from the ground up — ideally as a founding engineer or at an early-stage startup
• Hands-on experience with a voice AI framework (LiveKit strongly preferred)
• Strong Node.js / JavaScript and AWS skills
• Excellent written communication, which is central to prompt and conversation design
• Based in the NYC area and able to work hybrid, 3+ days per week on-site

Nice to Haves

• Time at a well-regarded voice AI company
• A Big Tech background (e.g. Google, Meta, Roblox) paired with startup or voice AI side projects
• A CS or related technical degree from a strong university
• Prompt engineering and conversational flow design for voice agents

Why Join

• Full ownership of a greenfield voice AI stack running at real production scale
• Meaningful equity and genuine early-stage upside at a fast-growing, venture-backed company
• A tight, senior technical team with direct founder access and no management layers

Details

• Location: New York, NY (Flatiron/NoMad)
• Work policy: Hybrid, 3+ days/week on-site
• Compensation: $200K–$300K + 0.25%–1% equity
• Visa sponsorship: Must be authorized to work in the U.S.; open to select visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H-1B)
• Employment type: Full-time