Software Engineer, Agents

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About LiveKit

LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing. Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe AI agents in production. Founded in 2021, LiveKit powers voice and agentic AI applications for OpenAI, Salesforce, Spotify, Meta, and tens of thousands of other developers, collectively facilitating billions of calls each year.

About This Role

We are looking for an exceptional engineer to join the Agents team and help shape the future of agentic computing. You'll work on the core abstractions and infrastructure that developers use to build sophisticated AI agents; from real-time voice and text interactions to durable workflows and agent-to-agent communication.

What You'll Do

Design and develop core functionality for the LiveKit Agents framework
Help define the text modality of the framework, enabling agents to interact with users across channels such as SMS
Design abstractions for stateful and durable agentic workflows, allowing agents to maintain state and coordinate work across interactions that may span minutes, hours, or longer
Shape agent-to-agent communication and delegation patterns, enabling voice agents to hand off tasks, collaborate, and compose into more sophisticated systems
Build simple, powerful developer APIs over complex distributed and real-time systems
Iterate quickly based on feedback from our developer community
Write clear documentation, examples, and reference implementations
Work primarily with Python and TypeScript

Who You Are

Experienced building LLM-based applications and agentic systems
Skilled at navigating complex systems and turning complexity into clean abstractions
Comfortable reasoning about state, concurrency and asynchronous workflows
Product-minded and excited about designing APIs and developer experiences
Experience building developer tools, frameworks, or SDKs is a plus
Interested in exploring emerging patterns in agent architecture rather than simply applying established ones
Comfortable working collaboratively in a remote environment

Our Commitment to You

An opportunity to build something truly impactful to the world
Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers
Competitive salary and equity package
Health, dental, and vision benefits
Flexible vacation policy

LiveKit is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable law. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact recruiting@livekit.io.

How we score this

Software Engineer, Agents at LiveKit scores 83 out of 100 on AI centrality, which makes it AI Level 4 of 4 (Builds AI) on this board. The level measures how much of the work is AI, not seniority.

Classification

AI Level 4. Building AI systems is the job itself: without AI, the role would not exist.

AI Level 480 to 100
AI Level 360 to 79
AI Level 240 to 59
AI Level 10 to 39

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AI AgentsOpenAI

Questions you could be asked

How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
Walk me through how you've used OpenAI in your day-to-day work.
How would you decide a model or AI system is ready to ship?
Tell me about a time a model underperformed in production. How did you find out, and what did you change?

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