Senior Research Engineer, Audio and Speech

Decagon
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 200,000 - 400,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Experience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Mentoring","Cross-functional collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Senior research engineer leading end-to-end development of real-time voice agents, focusing on speech understanding, memory and turn-taking, with production deployment responsibility and cross-functional collaboration to ship measurable improvements in conversational AI.

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Decagon
Decagon
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Senior Research Engineer, Audio and Speech

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Job Summary

Senior research engineer leading end-to-end development of real-time voice agents, focusing on speech understanding, memory and turn-taking, with production deployment responsibility and cross-functional collaboration to ship measurable improvements in conversational AI.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead research and engineering efforts to improve core conversational capabilities in production, including instruction following, retrieval, memory, and long-horizon task completion.
  • •Build and iterate on end-to-end models and pipelines that optimize for quality, efficiency, and user experience.
  • •Partner with platform and product engineers to integrate new models into production systems.
  • •Break down ambiguous research ideas into clear, iterative milestones and roadmaps.
  • •Mentor other researchers/engineers, set technical direction, and establish best practices for applied research and engineering.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 400,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering or research.
  • •Prior experience post-training and deploying LLMs in production environments.
Experience:5+ yearsConversational AIAINLP
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipMentoringCross-functional collaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:PythonLLMsTrainingEvaluationData pipelinesMemoryRetrievalOrchestration

Company Brief

Decagon
Builds conversational AI agents and a platform that automates customer support across chat, email, and voice, enabling brands to deliver concierge-level customer experiences at scale.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2023
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