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Sr. AI Voice Engineer

Open Posted 3 days ago

At a glance

Type
Full Time
Location
Los Angeles, California
Posted
Oct 9, 2026
Company size
Medium (501-5K)
Industry
Finance/FinTech

About the role

This role involves working with state-of-the-art speech recognition, speech synthesis, voice streaming, and AI agent frameworks to create scalable voice solutions for customer service, sales, finance, and automation applications. This is an on-site position with no relocation assistance provided.

If you're passionate about conversational AI and enjoy solving challenging engineering problems, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop real-time voice-to-voice AI agents.
  • Build conversational AI systems using LLMs and agent frameworks.
  • Integrate Speech-to-Text (STT) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies into production applications.
  • Optimize latency and streaming performance for natural conversations.
  • Develop backend services and APIs using Python and C#/.NET.
  • Integrate with telephony, voice streaming, and communication platforms.
  • Implement conversation memory, tool calling, function execution, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows.
  • Collaborate with product managers, AI engineers, and software developers to deliver production-ready AI solutions.
  • Evaluate emerging AI models, speech technologies, and voice platforms.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve voice agent performance and reliability.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Hands-on experience building voice-to-voice AI applications.

Strong understanding of

Speech Recognition (Automatic Speech Recognition - ASR)

Speech Synthesis (Text-to-Speech - TTS)

Voice Activity Detection (VAD)

  • Audio streaming and low-latency communication
  • Professional experience with Python and C#/.NET.
  • Experience consuming AI APIs and working with LLMs.
  • Experience building REST APIs and microservices.
  • Knowledge of asynchronous programming, event-driven architectures, and real-time streaming.
  • Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with one or more of the following

Real-time conversational AI platforms

AI agent frameworks

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Vector databases

Prompt engineering and evaluation

WebRTC, SIP, RTP, or telephony integrations

  • Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, or other cloud AI services
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native application development

About Hankey Group

Hankey Group
Finance/FinTech · Medium (501-5K)
136 open roles

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