Voice AI Engineering Principal overseeing the development and deployment of voice AI technologies at Zendesk. Leading a high-performing team to shape voice-enabled customer experiences.
Responsibilities
Define the technical vision and architect the next generation of our voice-first AI Agent platform
Own and drive complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives from concept to production
Lead the design and development of critical, real-time voice components
Establish and enforce engineering best practices, design patterns, and coding standards for Python-based voice agent development
Provide technical leadership and guidance to a dedicated project team
Actively mentor Senior and mid-level engineers
Serve as the primary technical partner for Product Leadership, ML Science, and Infrastructure teams
Design, establish, and continuously improve the organizational platforms and methodologies for evaluating voice agent performance and behavior
Architect and implement advanced safety and reliability mechanisms
Requirements
10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering
4+ years focused on AI/ML applications
2+ years operating in a Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leadership capacity
Expertise in LLM-Oriented System Architecture
Mastery in Voice AI/Spoken Dialogue Systems
Extensive, hands-on experience building mission-critical, low-latency, streaming voice applications
Deep proficiency with integrating and managing real-time STT/TTS models and APIs
Advanced techniques for Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and noise suppression
Architecting robust barge-in and interruption logic in real-time voice streams
Deep expertise in deploying complex, large-scale AI applications to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Proven experience optimizing LLM token budgets, latency, and cost through sophisticated model routing, caching (e.g., Redis), and quantization techniques
Comprehensive understanding of foundational ML concepts, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, vector databases, and advanced context management to ensure deterministic and accurate agent behavior in complex production environments
Expert-level proficiency in Python and modern web frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, gRPC for streaming services)
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