PolyAI
Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Must be PST timezone)
United States {West Coast}
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$190kDetected 8 days ago
PythonBackend DevelopmentDockerData AnalysisCustomer SuccessCustomer SupportVoIPCommunication
About the role
- Join our Agent Deployment team to play a critical role in deploying voice agents that handle tens of thousands of customer interactions every day.
- This role offers an exciting blend of technical innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and impactful client interaction, giving you the opportunity to shape the future of AI-powered customer experiences.
- We provide a competitive salary range for this role, which is $150,000 - $190,000 depending on level and experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead the hands on development, configuration, and deployment of conversational AI systems for enterprise clients, ensuring solutions are production ready and aligned with real business workflows.
- Develop deep expertise in the platform architecture, capabilities, and limitations in order to design reliable and scalable solutions for client deployments.
- Design creative solutions to overcome platform or integration constraints while maintaining system reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of deployed systems, ensuring production environments meet strict SLAs for uptime, latency, and operational stability.
- Collaborate with Deployment Strategists (DS) and Customer Success Managers (CSMs) to support successful project delivery and long term client outcomes.
- Build and maintain operational dashboards, metrics, and alerts to ensure deployments meet both internal and external reliability standards.
- Lead integration with enterprise infrastructure including telephony systems such as SIP and RTP, backend services, and external APIs, ensuring secure and scalable production operation.
- Our voice assistants make it possible for businesses to deliver outstanding customer service that rivals their human agents.
- You will serve as the primary technical liaison between PolyAI and our clients, collaborating closely to understand their requirements, deliver customized solutions, and ensure measurable success and customer satisfaction.
Requirements
- You work with AI productivity and/or automation tools in your daily tasks.
- 2-5 years of client-facing experience in solution implementation, technical consulting, management consulting, or a similar role.
- Experience with VoIP protocols such as SIP, RTP, and related telephony technologies (e.g., call routing, signaling, and media handling).
- Experience with Python programming.
- Familiarity with containerization and microservice deployments using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Native-level proficiency in English.
- Strong technical foundation (education or professional background in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Analysis, etc.) and comfortable rapidly mastering new technologies.
- Proven ability to independently manage projects and passionate about solving problems, whether technical or non-technical.
- Demonstrate the ability to manage stakeholders while staying result-driven.
- Outstanding communication skills, able to clearly explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Creative, solutions-focused mindset with a talent for overcoming complex challenges.
- You're passionate about building AI that positively impacts everyday life.
- We provide a competitive salary range for this role, which is $150,000 - $190,000 depending on level and experience. Please note this range is intended as a guide, not a guarantee. Final compensation will be based on individual qualifications, relevant experience, and the scope of the role. In addition to salary, this position includes equity in the business, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success.
Nice to have
- Passionate about AI, specifically voice-driven technologies, with a strong motivation to continuously expand your expertise.
- Strong technical background or demonstrated ability to quickly grasp complex concepts (preferred backgrounds: Engineering, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related fields).
- Thrives at the intersection of technology and customer success, energized by creatively overcoming complex enterprise interactions and getting to the successful deployment.
- Skilled in navigating multiple stakeholder relationships (both internal and external), balancing stakeholder needs without losing sight of core business objectives.
Compensation
- We provide a competitive salary range for this role, which is $150,000 - $190,000 depending on level and experience.
Benefits
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for enterprise clients, leading technical discussions, troubleshooting issues, and maintaining ownership of system architecture and production health.
Company info
- Partner closely with product and engineering teams, representing client needs internally and communicating product capabilities and roadmap direction to customers.
- PolyAI automates customer service through lifelike voice assistants that let customers lead a conversation.
- Our customers, which include the world's leading logos, are expanding how they use our platform, driving automation of critical customer service operations and integrating PolyAI into their daily customer service workflows.
- As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you'll directly influence PolyAI's growth by rapidly implementing and optimizing cutting-edge voice AI solutions tailored to our enterprise customers' needs.
This listing is sourced directly from PolyAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.