Technical and Product Responsibilities:

• Guide the design, development, and operation of real-time voice and conversational AI systems
• Lead engineering efforts across voice agents, conversation orchestration, telephony integrations, and customer workflows
• Help the team build responsive, natural conversational experiences that handle interruptions, changing context, accents, languages, and unpredictable user behavior
• Partner with AI/ML teams to integrate speech recognition, text-to-speech, LLMs, and other AI models into production voice experiences
• Drive improvements in latency, reliability, call quality, scalability, and overall user experience
• Guide integrations with telephony and contact-center infrastructure, including SIP, PSTN, WebRTC, Twilio, Genesys, Cisco, RingCentral, Zendesk Talk, and similar platforms
• Build systems that allow AI agents to execute real-world workflows such as account updates, transactions, scheduling, refunds, and other customer actions
• Ensure voice conversations can transition smoothly to human agents with the appropriate context, transcripts, summaries, and interaction history
• Establish strong observability and debugging practices for distributed, real-time systems
• Partner with customer-facing teams to investigate production issues and turn customer feedback into durable product improvements
• Help define technical architecture and engineering standards as the Voice platform scales across customers and use cases
• Evaluate and adopt technologies that improve voice quality, developer velocity, reliability, and product performance

Who You Are:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams
• Strong technical background building and operating production software systems
• Experience leading teams working on distributed, real-time, or high-concurrency applications
• Strong understanding of APIs, backend systems, service-oriented architectures, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience working with asynchronous systems, streaming data, event-driven architectures, or similar real-time workloads
• Strong product judgment and experience partnering closely with Product and Design
• Comfortable working across both technical architecture and day-to-day execution
• Experience operating customer-facing systems where reliability and responsiveness are critical
• Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
• Comfortable working directly with customers to understand technical requirements and production issues
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced startup environment

How You Show Up

• We are customer champions. You put users at the center of your thinking, advocate for their needs, and design solutions that make their lives measurably better.
• We are bold in action. You move with urgency and courage, unafraid to challenge convention and take smart risks in pursuit of meaningful outcomes.
• We are data-driven and insight guided. You make thoughtful decisions grounded in evidence, combining data with intuition to guide strategy and execution.
• We are stronger together. You bring others along, value diverse perspectives, and contribute to a culture of trust and shared ownership.

What We Offer

• 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums covered for you, 80% for family
• HSA and FSA plans available
• Unlimited vacation and 100% paid parental leave
• Free lunches, onsite gym, and commuter benefits for in-office employees
• $1,000 home office stipend and $5,000/year for continuing education
• Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and meaningful equity
• ~130 people, built from zero in under three years — small enough that your work is visible, big enough to already be running at Dell- and Tripadvisor-scale

Maven AGI is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and is committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels included. Join us in changing the face of enterprise customer support!

Compensation: $185K - $235K