Senior Software Engineer, Agents

About the Team

The Agent Engineering team at Decagon deploys mission‑critical AI agents to our customers that impact millions of users and directly drive Decagon’s growth. You will build on our industry‑leading AI agent platform, collaborate directly with customers and use your own creativity to devise long‑term, scalable solutions.

Our mission is to deliver magical support experiences — AI agents working alongside human agents to help users resolve their issues.

About the Role

On the Agent Engineering team, you’ll have complete ownership and autonomy in building and shipping best‑in‑class AI agents, from initial implementation through continuous iteration. You’ll work directly with leaders across industries like finance, healthcare and hospitality, solving their users’ needs with reliable and intuitive AI agents. Engineers here own their work end‑to‑end and are trusted to make a real impact.

In this role, you will

• Design and build AI agents that outperform human agents in managing complex customer interactions and driving customer retention.
• Identify cross‑customer trends that guide the evolution of Decagon’s agent building platform and research efforts.
• Experiment with and run evaluations on the latest text and voice models, then integrate them at scale with large enterprise‑grade customers.

Your background looks something like this

• Have 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
• Proficiency with Python, Typescript and asynchronous programming.
• A high degree of comfort digging into system failures within deep technology stacks using any tool necessary.

Even better

• Prior experience working with multi‑modal models.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Take what you need vacation policy.
• Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office to keep you at your best.

Compensation

$200K – $400K + Offers Equity