Sr. AI / Machine Learning Platform Engineer - Voice Agents

Sr. AI / Machine Learning Platform Engineer - Voice Agents

Location: San Francisco, CA (you can work from home 2x/week)

The company has raised $6 million in seed funding and has already reached a $8 million/year run rate in only 16 months. The company is comprised of 15 people and 8 engineers, and is rapidly hiring.

You would be reporting to the CTO/Cofounder, who was previously a machine learning tech lead and manager at Google.

The company will pay a salary up to $300k, plus equity which could be very lucrative.

Job Responsibilities:

- Primarily programming in Python. The company seeks language agnostic engineers who are able and interested to learn new technologies as needed.

- Time spent will be roughly 50% building a simulation and evaluation platform for AI agents, and 50% working on the framework used to build the AI agents.

- Designing, building, and enhancing a simulation and evaluation platform used to rigorously test, benchmark, and improve AI agents across a wide range of tasks and environments.

- Developing scalable evaluation frameworks, tooling, and methodologies to measure agent performance, reliability, decision quality, and failure modes.

- Build core frameworks, abstractions, and infrastructure used to develop, orchestrate, and deploy AI agents.

- Collaborating closely with other engineers to rapidly iterate on agent architectures, capabilities, and evaluation strategies.

- Creating systems that enabling reproducible experiments, large-scale simulations, and data-driven optimization of agent behavior.

- Improving developer workflows, testing capabilities, and platform reliability to accelerate AI agent development and deployment.

- Analyzing evaluation results and agent behaviors to identify weaknesses, guide improvements, and drive overall system performance.

- Contributing to technical architecture and engineering best practices across both the agent framework and evaluation platform stack.

Qualifications:

- 5-10 years of engineering experience in good organizations.

- Strong communication skills.

- Strong software engineering experience building complex backend systems, platforms, frameworks, or developer tooling.

- Experience designing or building evaluation, testing, simulation, benchmarking, or experimentation systems for AI/ML products or distributed systems.

- Strong programming skills in Python and/or other modern backend languages.

- Experience working with LLMs, AI agents, reinforcement learning systems, or other modern AI application architectures.

- Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.

- Experience building internal platforms, SDKs, APIs, orchestration systems, or infrastructure that enable rapid product development.

- Ability to analyze complex system behavior, debug issues, and improve reliability through data-driven approaches.

- Comfortable working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with a high degree of ownership and autonomy.

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