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# AI Agent Engineer

- **Company:** David Joseph & Company
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Node.Js, Standard Sql, AI Infrastructure, Core Voice Platform, Chatbots, Multi-Agent Systems, Prompt Engineering, Kubernetes, Virtual Agents
- **Published:** July 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=28f318e60302a3fe

## About the Role

* 2+ years in voice AI, conversational AI, prompt engineering, speech systems, or related agentic workflows
 * 3+ years in platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering
 * Strong experience with Node.js, AWS, and SQL
 * Shipped production systems in a startup or similarly fast-paced environment
 * Experience with voice-orchestration platforms or agent frameworks such as LiveKit or equivalent
 * Strong prompt-writing instincts and the ability to design resilient conversational flows for real-world edge cases
 * Strong analytical skills and comfort tying technical work directly to business outcomes and ROI, * Voice-AI experience in production, even from a lesser-known company or background
 * Built AI infrastructure or agentic systems at a startup or AI company, with a real sense of what production-grade means at scale
 * LiveKit or other voice-orchestration-framework experience
 * Business-minded: connects technical decisions to liquidation, containment, and conversion metrics, not just engineering metrics
 * Strong prompt-engineering instincts, having designed conversational flows that handle edge cases gracefully under compliance constraints
 * Telephony-infrastructure experience such as SIP trunking

## Description

The client needs an AI Agent Engineer to build and own its voice-AI agent infrastructure end to end on LiveKit - the orchestration layer, the prompting strategy across millions of consumer interactions, and continuous performance improvement through rigorous testing and iteration. It suits a deep voice-AI engineer or a strong, analytical, business-minded infrastructure engineer equally well., * Own it end to end: build the voice-AI infrastructure in-house from scratch on LiveKit - orchestration, prompting strategy, evaluation

 * Real scale, real outcomes: millions of consumer interactions a month, tied directly to liquidation, containment, and conversion metrics
 * Fast traction: ~$2M annualized run rate in a few months with a team of five, targeting $10M ARR this year


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