About the Role
On the Agent Engineering team, you’ll have complete ownership and autonomy in building and shipping best-in-class AI agents, from initial implementation through continuous iteration. You’ll work directly with leaders across industries like finance, healthcare and hospitality, solving their users’ needs with reliable and intuitive AI agents. Engineers here own their work end-to-end and are trusted to make a real impact. This role is for someone who dives deep into complex system challenges and builds elegant solutions that scale to millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Design and build AI agents that outperform human agents in managing complex customer interactions and driving customer retention
- Identify cross-customer trends that guide the evolution of Decagon’s agent building platform and research efforts
- Experiment with and run evaluations on the latest text and voice models, then integrate them at scale with large enterprise-grade customers
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience in software engineering
- Proficiency with Python, Typescript and asynchronous programming
- A high degree of comfort digging into system failures within deep technology stacks using any tool necessary
- Prior experience working with multi-modal models
Location
- In-office
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $200K – $400K + Offers Equity
Benefits
- Take what you need vacation policy
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
- Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
- Retirement Plan
- Parental Leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Daily lunches and snacks in the office
About the Company
- Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences.
- Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel.
- We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships.
- We’re proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures, along with many others.
- We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity.
- Our values — Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle — shape how we work and grow as a team.
