CrawlJobs Logo

Staff Voice AI Engineer

uber.com Logo

Uber

Location Icon

Location:
United States , San Francisco

Category Icon

Job Type Icon

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary Icon

Salary:

232000.00 - 258000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

Applied AI at Uber builds intelligent systems that power next-generation product experiences for riders, drivers, merchants, and couriers. As a Staff Voice AI Engineer, you will lead the design and deployment of large-scale, real-time Voice AI systems that enable natural, reliable, and intelligent voice interactions across Uber’s ecosystem. You will operate as a full-stack technical leader across speech modeling, LLM-powered conversational intelligence, and low-latency backend infrastructure — owning Voice AI systems end-to-end, from model development and evaluation to highly available, distributed production services. This includes advancing capabilities in automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), spoken language understanding, and LLM-driven dialogue systems. You will partner closely with product, design, and infrastructure teams to translate customer pain points into seamless voice-first experiences — setting the foundation for how Voice AI is built, deployed, and operated across Uber’s global platform.

Job Responsibility:

  • Design and build end-to-end Voice AI solutions, from understanding customer pain points and defining product requirements to deploying LLM-powered, real-time voice interfaces in production
  • Benchmark and evaluate voice AI systems, including speech recognition, speech synthesis, and spoken language understanding, by designing evaluations, analyzing results, and identifying systematic weaknesses
  • Improve voice model performance through system prompt tuning, fine-tuning voice- and speech-specific models, and optimizing architectures for low-latency, real-time voice interactions
  • Analyze voice request logs, prompt traces, and audio inputs to diagnose failure modes, improve transcription accuracy, conversational quality, and overall user experience
  • Build and maintain internal tools and platforms to automate Voice AI workflows, such as large-scale transcription pipelines, real-time audio processing services, and evaluation harnesses for voice quality
  • Own Voice AI systems in production end-to-end, including rollout strategies, monitoring, alerting, quality regression detection, and on-call readiness
  • Collaborate closely with product, design, and research teams to translate user needs into Voice AI capabilities with measurable business and customer impact

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data science, or machine learning, including a track record of shipping production AI systems
  • Deep understanding of large language models, including fine-tuning, prompt engineering, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • Strong backend and distributed systems expertise, with experience designing and operating highly available, scalable services in production
  • Deep experience with ML infrastructure, including model training pipelines, online serving systems, feature stores, experiment platforms, and evaluation frameworks
  • Hands-on experience with distributed data processing systems (e.g., Spark, Flink, Ray) and workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow or equivalent)
  • Ability to analyze data, run experiments, and derive insights for model and product improvement
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams

Nice to have:

  • Experience building evaluation frameworks for Voice AI, including metrics and human/LLM-assisted evaluations for speech recognition accuracy, latency, robustness, and naturalness of synthesized speech
  • Demonstrated expertise in machine learning fundamentals applied to voice, including model evaluation, training, and fine-tuning of ASR, TTS, or speech-language models
  • Proven experience deploying Voice AI systems to production, with an emphasis on low-latency, high-reliability, real-time environments
  • Experience writing developer documentation, creating voice-specific SDKs, or enabling internal teams to build on shared Voice AI platforms
  • Hands-on work with large-scale audio datasets, including data curation, labeling strategies, and optimization of voice processing pipelines at scale
What we offer:
  • Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program
  • May be offered an equity award & other types of comp
  • Eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan
  • Eligible for various benefits (details at link)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 04, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
Job Link Share:

Looking for more opportunities? Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Briefcase Icon

Similar Jobs for Staff Voice AI Engineer

Staff Backend Engineer, Speech AI

Our intelligent runtime must seamlessly connect to foundational models to power ...
Location
Location
United States , Mountain View
Salary
Salary:
200000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year
inworld.ai Logo
Inworld AI
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • A BA/BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of professional experience in software development, with a proven track record of shipping high-quality, user-facing products
  • Strong product sense and an ability to think critically about user experience and business impact
  • Demonstrated experience in building and scaling production-grade backend APIs and distributed systems
  • Strong proficiency in Python and professional experience with one or more of the following: Java/Kotlin, or Go
  • Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and deploying services on orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
  • A solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and system design
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Own features end-to-end, from collaborating on the initial concept with product managers to shipping and monitoring the final product
  • Translate product requirements and user needs into robust, scalable, and maintainable backend services and APIs
  • Design, build, and launch user-facing APIs and backend systems in Python, Java/Kotlin, and Go that deliver seamless voice experiences
  • Partner closely with Product Managers and ML engineers to define scope, identify technical trade-offs, and drive the product roadmap forward
  • Write high-quality, production-grade code that powers real-time audio processing, model inference, and complex data pipelines
  • Champion engineering and product excellence, with a focus on delivering tangible value to our users quickly and iteratively
What we offer
What we offer
  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits
  • relocation assistance
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Staff Security Engineer

At hyperexponential, we’re building the AI-powered platform that enables the wor...
Location
Location
United Kingdom , London
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
hyperexponential.com Logo
hyperexponential
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Built or significantly contributed to security programmes from the ground up, establishing foundational security controls, compliance readiness, and incident response capabilities
  • Designed and implemented security architecture for cloud-based distributed systems (AWS or equivalent), including multi-account strategies, identity and access management, network security, and data protection
  • Driven technical security improvements by writing code, building tools, and implementing controls that scaled with company growth
  • Integrated security into development workflows through DevSecOps practices including automated testing, secrets management, container security, and infrastructure-as-code security
  • Led or supported compliance initiatives (SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR, or similar), mapping technical controls to compliance requirements and guiding teams through audit cycles
  • Built trust with engineering teams by contributing technically and making security collaborative and frictionless
  • Balanced security rigor with business goals, making risk-based trade-offs that enabled growth while protecting customers and the business
  • Evaluated security implications of AI/ML systems, including understanding AI-specific risks and implementing controls to secure them
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Build hx's security programme from the ground up, setting direction for security architecture, compliance, and incident response as we scale globally
  • Design and implement security controls across AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes workloads, and our multi-product platform, ensuring systems are secure by design
  • Integrate security into engineering workflows by embedding automated security testing, vulnerability management, and threat detection into CI/CD pipelines without slowing teams down
  • Lead or contribute to compliance initiatives (SOC2, ISO27001) by implementing technical controls and working cross-functionally with legal, engineering, and business teams to enable enterprise sales
  • Build security automation and tooling by writing code and scripts that scale security practices, detect vulnerabilities, and enforce policies efficiently
  • Partner with Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, and Product Managers to embed security thinking early in design and architecture decisions
  • Act as a trusted voice in critical moments: responding to incidents, unblocking teams on security questions, and keeping high-stakes initiatives secure and on track
  • Assess and secure AI-powered systems across hx's platform, implementing controls that enable safe adoption of AI while mitigating risks like prompt injection, data leakage, and model vulnerabilities
What we offer
What we offer
  • £5,000 training and conference budget for individual and group development
  • 25 days of holiday plus 8 bank holidays (33 days total)
  • Company pension scheme via Penfold
  • Mental health support and therapy via Spectrum.life
  • Individual wellbeing allowance via Juno
  • Private healthcare insurance through AXA
  • Income protection and Life Insurance
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Top-spec equipment (laptop, screens, adjustable desks, etc.)
  • Regular remote and in-person hackathons, lunch and learns, socials, and game nights
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Staff Software Engineer, Voice AI

Nooks is the AI Sales Assistant Platform (ASAP) that automates the busywork so r...
Location
Location
United States , San Francisco
Salary
Salary:
250000.00 - 325000.00 USD / Year
nooks.ai Logo
Nooks
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 6–10+ years backend/infra engineering with real-time A/V or telephony systems
  • Hands-on experience with WebRTC, SIP, Twilio, or similar stacks
  • Strong foundation in distributed systems and low-latency infra
  • Experience debugging and optimizing QoS (latency, jitter, packet loss)
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Architect and improve real-time voice infra (WebRTC/SIP/Twilio)
  • Ensure call quality and latency meet SLA targets globally
  • Build services for advanced features (call transfers, monitoring, recordings)
  • Develop observability and debugging tools for call flows
  • Partner with Product/Support to enable new A/V features and fast issue resolution
  • Own backend infrastructure for real-time audio/video calling (Twilio, Salesfloor, A/V quality, recordings, transcriptions) to deliver a dialer that scales reliably to 10× volume
What we offer
What we offer
  • equity
  • comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage
  • hybrid work
  • unlimited paid time off
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Sr. Staff Engineer (Conversational/Voice AI)

Uber’s Customer Obsession team builds the platform and AI that powers world‑clas...
Location
Location
United States , Sunnyvale, California; San Francisco, California
Salary
Salary:
267000.00 - 297000.00 USD / Year
uber.com Logo
Uber
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 10+ years building production ML/AI systems
  • 4+ years leading complex ML initiatives end‑to‑end
  • Deep expertise in LLM‑driven systems (inference optimization, prompt/program design, fine‑tuning, distillation/LoRA, safety/guardrails, evals)
  • Strong software engineering in Python plus one of Go/Java/C++
  • hands‑on with microservices, gRPC/HTTP, cloud infra, containers, CI/CD, and real‑time telemetry/observability
  • Demonstrated ownership of high‑availability services (SLO/SLA design, incident response, on‑call leadership, postmortems)
  • Track record of shipping customer‑facing intelligent experiences with measurable impact (A/B testing, metrics literacy)
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Own the end‑to‑end agent architecture: agentic planning and execution loops, long-term memory, persona/voice, knowledge routing, and policy enforcement for compliant, on‑brand conversations
  • Ship production systems that handle millions of conversations with rigorous SLOs, fallbacks, and canaries
  • design graceful degradation (e.g., human handoff) and safety guardrails (prompt‑injection, jailbreak, PII redaction)
  • Lead voice agent initiatives: Drive the development of Uber’s voice support agent—covering real-time speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech, natural turn-taking (barge-in and endpointing), and reliable telephony/WebRTC integration
  • Advance retrieval & reasoning: Build next-generation retrieval and reasoning pipelines, where the agent can search across different knowledge sources, apply policy-driven tools, and call structured workflows and ensure that responses are consistently grounded
  • Establish evals that matter: offline rubrics, simulated scenarios, safety tests, cost/latency tradeoff suites, and LLM‑as‑judge (with calibrated human review) wired into CI/CD and experiment platforms
  • Drive automation at scale: partner with Product/Design/Operations on coverage, policy alignment, localization, and rollout strategy to better customer experience and reduce cost per contact
  • Mentor/principal‑lead multiple pods
  • set technical strategy and quality bars
  • coach senior engineers on agentic patterns, reliability, and experiment velocity
What we offer
What we offer
  • Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program
  • may be offered an equity award & other types of comp
  • eligible for various benefits (details at https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits)
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Staff Software Engineer

AI-native operating system for home service businesses. Broccoli AI builds AI vo...
Location
Location
United States , San Francisco
Salary
Salary:
150000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year
helpcare.ai Logo
Helpcare AI
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 7+ years of experience in backend or full-stack engineering
  • Comfortable with high-velocity shipping and early-stage ambiguity
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Build and scale our AI agent platform and internal tools
  • Own backend services, APIs, and integrations with CRMs like ServiceTitan
  • Ship new features end-to-end—idea → prototype → production
  • Optimize our real-time voice infrastructure and improve agent intelligence
What we offer
What we offer
  • Top-tier salary and meaningful equity
  • Work on cutting-edge AI with massive real-world impact
  • Work from an amazing office in South Park in San Francisco
  • Small, high-trust, founder-led team
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Staff Developer Advocate

As a Staff Developer Advocate, you inspire developers by shipping the code and c...
Location
Location
United States , San Francisco
Salary
Salary:
195000.00 - 245000.00 USD / Year
deepgram.com Logo
Deepgram
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 5-7 years of experience in Software Engineering or Developer Relations
  • Solid foundation in JavaScript or Python techstacks
  • Comfortable working across the full stack from building APIs to creating simple, clean frontends
  • A portfolio of technical writing, blog posts, or video content that demonstrates your ability to make complex topics simple
  • Experience participating in or managing developer communities
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Ship Reference Patterns: Architect and open-source sample apps that solve real-world challenges like building real-time voice agents and orchestrating multiple AI models
  • Code-First Content: Produce deep-dives and "build-in-public" documentation that moves developers from idea to a working prototype in minutes
  • The "Zero-Index" Sensor: Act as the first customer for every feature. Turn unfiltered feedback from your own builds and the community into "Friction Reports" that influence Product and Engineering priorities
  • Scale Awareness: Author high quality technical content across content and social media platforms to demonstrate how Deepgram fits into the developer toolkit
  • Technical Outreach: Engage where developers live (GitHub, X, Discord) to represent Deepgram, influence technical decisions, and earn community trust
  • Strategic Travel: Spend ~20% of your time (roughly 2-3x per quarter) leading workshops, participating in meetups, and speaking at AI conferences to build in-person relationships with the community
What we offer
What we offer
  • Medical, dental, vision benefits
  • Annual wellness stipend
  • Mental health support
  • Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Flexible schedule
  • 12 Paid US company holidays
  • Quarterly personal productivity stipend
  • One-time stipend for home office upgrades
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Staff Engineer, Interactive Voice Response - AI/ML

Our Service Engineering team at GEICO is revolutionizing customer service using ...
Location
Location
United States , Palo Alto, CA; New York City, NY; Chevy Chase, MD
Salary
Salary:
115000.00 - 230000.00 USD / Year
geico.com Logo
Geico
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Hands-on proficiency with modern AI/ML frameworks and tools (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and programming languages such as Python, Java, or C++
  • Proven experience designing, developing, and deploying AI or machine learning models(LLMs) in production environments, with a focus on scalability and performance
  • Strong software engineering background with expertise in building large-scale distributed systems, preferably in cloud environment (Azure or AWS)
  • Demonstrated ability to apply AI/ML solutions to real-world business problems, delivering measurable impact in areas such as natural language processing, speech recognition, recommendation systems, or intelligent automation
  • Experience in building products using micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
  • Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
  • Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
  • Experience in leveraging PowerShell scripting
  • Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
  • Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design, develop, and deploy large-scale distributed AI applications that power customer self-service across multiple communication channels (voice, IVR, chat)
  • Build and optimize multi-agent systems that enable intelligent, collaborative decision-making to improve automation and customer experience
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, data science) to translate business requirements into scalable AI/ML solutions
  • Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance through best practices in architecture, testing, and monitoring
  • Stay at the forefront of AI and distributed systems research, brining innovative approaches and tools into production environment
  • Utilize programming languages like Python, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
  • Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
  • Parttime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Staff Engineer, Interactive Voice Response - AI/ML

Our Service Engineering team at GEICO is revolutionizing customer service using ...
Location
Location
United States , Palo Alto, CA; New York City, NY; Chevy Chase, MD
Salary
Salary:
130000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year
geico.com Logo
Geico
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Hands-on proficiency with modern AI/ML frameworks and tools (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and programming languages such as Python, Java, or C++
  • Proven experience designing, developing, and deploying AI or machine learning models(LLMs) in production environments, with a focus on scalability and performance
  • Strong software engineering background with expertise in building large-scale distributed systems, preferably in cloud environment (Azure or AWS)
  • Demonstrated ability to apply AI/ML solutions to real-world business problems, delivering measurable impact in areas such as natural language processing, speech recognition, recommendation systems, or intelligent automation
  • Experience in building products using micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
  • Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
  • Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
  • Experience in leveraging PowerShell scripting
  • Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
  • Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design, develop, and deploy large-scale distributed AI applications that power customer self-service across multiple communication channels (voice, IVR, chat)
  • Build and optimize multi-agent systems that enable intelligent, collaborative decision-making to improve automation and customer experience
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, data science) to translate business requirements into scalable AI/ML solutions
  • Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance through best practices in architecture, testing, and monitoring
  • Stay at the forefront of AI and distributed systems research, brining innovative approaches and tools into production environment
  • Utilize programming languages like Python, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
  • Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
What we offer
What we offer
  • Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being
  • Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation
  • a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match
  • performance and recognition-based incentives
  • and tuition assistance
  • Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance
  • Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right