ServiceNow · Santa Clara, CA · posted 3 days ago
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The Forward Deployed Engineer, Voice AI Agent Engineering designs, builds, ships, and operates voice AI agents whose core behavior is model-driven rather than explicitly authored — conversational and agentic experiences that interpret caller intent over a live audio channel, reason over context, invoke tools, and act on the caller's behalf. The engineer works across the full lifecycle: shaping ambiguous call flows and telephony requirements into precise specifications, authoring the instructions and prompts that govern voice agent behavior, proving through automated evaluation that the result behaves correctly on real calls. This is not a machine learning or AI research role — the engineer does not train foundation or speech models — but it is distinct from traditional software engineering, where systems follow deterministic call-flow logic rather than selecting execution paths at runtime. Two things follow, and voice makes both harder. First, the agent's most important logic often lives in natural language — instructions, prompts, tool descriptions, and guardrails — which must be engineered, versioned, and reviewed with the same discipline as code, while also holding up under what a spoken channel adds: turn-taking, barge-in, and disambiguating what speech recognition got wrong. Second, because behavior is probabilistic and happens live on a call, correctness is established by measuring behavior at scale — including latency, containment, and transcription accuracy — rather than by asserting fixed outputs, making automated evaluation a first-class engineering activity rather than a quality-assurance afterthought. The engineer owns the correctness of what ships to a live caller, whether a human or an agent produced it. What You Get to Do in This Role: - Build voice AI agents. Design and ship agentic voice applications — intent interpretation, multi-step reasoning, tool invocation, and action on the caller's behalf — together with the CTI, CCaaS, and telephony integrations that make them usable in production.