Retell AI
Applied AI Engineer (Customer Facing)
San Francisco Bay Area$200k–$300kcontractmidAdded today
About this role
Retell AI seeks an Applied AI Engineer to work directly with enterprise customers on designing, building, and deploying production voice AI applications. You'll bridge AI, software engineering, and customer success, solving complex technical challenges while helping customers scale AI voice solutions in production.
What you'll do
- Design and deploy production AI voice applications in partnership with enterprise customers
- Integrate Retell APIs and SDKs into customer systems and develop custom workflows
- Debug production issues across APIs, webhooks, telephony, SIP, and infrastructure
- Lead technical onboarding and serve as primary technical advisor during customer implementations
- Investigate AI behavior, improve prompt quality, and optimize system performance
- Gather customer feedback to inform product roadmap and feature prioritization
What they're looking for
- Full-stack software engineering and API integration
- Python, Node.js, or similar backend languages
- AI/LLM prompt engineering and optimization
- Telephony, SIP, webhooks, and real-time systems experience
- Cloud infrastructure and scalability design
- Customer communication and technical problem-solving
- Debugging and troubleshooting across distributed systems
- Understanding of conversational AI and voice technology
Benefits
- Work with leading enterprise customers like CVS/Aetna, American Airlines, and Lenovo
- Full-time role at fast-growing, well-funded AI startup
- Based in Redwood City headquarters with collaborative engineering culture
- Direct influence on product roadmap through customer insights
- Opportunity to shape the future of enterprise voice AI
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Retell AI
Retell AI builds AI products and is developing design systems to enhance the connection between design and code across its platform. The company is hiring Design Engineers to prototype in code, maintain design systems, and ensure design consistency.
- Website
- retell.ai
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience integrating third-party APIs or SDKs into production systems and how you handled integration challenges.
- Tell us about a time you debugged a complex, production issue across multiple systems—what was your approach?