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Senior Software Engineer, Voice Agent at Decagon AI, Inc.

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Job Description

About Decagon

Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experience. Our AI agents provide intelligent, human like responses across chat, email, and voice, resolving millions of customer inquiries across every language and at any time.

Since coming out of stealth, Decagon has experienced rapid growth. We partner with industry leaders like Hertz, Eventbrite, Duolingo, Oura, Bilt, Curology, and Samsara to redefine customer experience at scale. We've raised over $200M from Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, a16z, BOND Capital, A , Elad Gil, and notable angels such as the founders of Box, Airtable, Rippling, Okta, Lattice, and Klaviyo.

We're an in office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values-customers are everything, relentless momentum, winner's mindset, and stronger together-shape how we work and grow as a team.

About the Team

The Voice Agent team builds the real time systems that allow Decagon agents to carry natural conversations across our omnichannels (phone, web, mobile, etc). We work across speech understanding, audio streaming, synthesis quality, and the voice specific execution logic that enables timing, pacing, and responsive dialogue.

Our systems must remain accurate, responsive, and stable at scale. Voice is one of the most technically challenging surfaces in conversational AI, and our small team owns this entire capability end to end.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Voice Agent, you will design and improve the systems that power Decagon's live voice agents. You will work across streaming audio, transcription, synthesis, timing, and real time orchestration.

You will collaborate closely with Research to bring new models to production, with Infra to optimize performance, and with Product to unlock new conversational capabilities.

In this role, you will
  • Build the real time voice runtime that powers natural customer conversations
  • Improve speech understanding and synthesis quality while keeping latency low
  • Design systems that manage timing, interruptions, and streaming audio reliably
  • Create tools that make voice interactions easy to debug, test, and observe at scale
Your background looks something like this
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Proficiency with Typescript, Python, and asynchronous programming
  • Experience with asynchronous or streaming systems
  • Strong debugging skills across audio, networking, or real time pipelines
  • An interest in speech, audio, or multimodal AI
Even better
  • 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
Compensation

$250K - $330K + Offers Equity

Typical senior pay: $169k for Software Developers nationally

National salary averages
Expected senior-level
$169k
Entry
Mid
Senior
Expected
$80k Market range (10th-90th percentile) $211k

Senior roles pay 64% more than entry—experience is well rewarded.

Strong candidate leverage

High demand and responsive wages. Negotiate confidently on all fronts.

Hiring leverage
Lean candidate
Wage leverage
Moderate
Mobility
Good mobility

Who this leverage applies to

Stronger for: All experience levels

Where to negotiate

Base salary
Sign-on bonus
Title / level
Remote flexibility
Scope & responsibility
Start date / PTO

Likely Possible Unlikely

Use competing offers and timing to your advantage.

Does this path compound?

Job Growth →
High churn
Growth, flat pay
🚀 Compound
Growth + pay upside
⚠️ Plateau
Limited growth
Specialize
Experts earn more
Pay Upside →
Growth + pay upside

Both the field and your earnings can grow significantly.

+16%
10yr growth
A bachelor's degree is typically expected.
115,200 openings projected annually—mostly replacing retirees and turnover.
Typical: Bachelor's degree

Good time to build expertise—demand will chase supply.

Labor data: BLS 2024