Lead Conversational AI & Real-Time Voice Agent Engineer

Opportunity Overview

Location: 100% Remote (United States)
Employment Type: Full-Time Direct-Hire via Accel DNA
Compensation Range: $175,000 – $210,000 Base + Equity
Hiring Agency: Accel DNA – Premier Frontier Data & AI Talent Partner

Build ultra-low-latency, bidirectional conversational voice agents leveraging real-time speech-to-speech models and WebSocket streaming architectures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop sub-500ms voice-to-voice pipelines integrating real-time ASR, LLM streaming inference, and expressive TTS models.
• Implement interruption handling, turn-taking prediction, and background noise suppression algorithms.
• Integrate voice agents into enterprise telephony systems (Twilio, WebRTC, SIP trunking).
• Evaluate conversational coherence, acoustic quality, and task resolution rates across call center deployments.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years in conversational AI or audio processing with strong Python and C++ or Rust fundamentals.
• Experience with WebRTC, LiveKit, Whisper/Deepgram, and streaming LLM APIs (OpenAI Realtime, Gemini Multimodal Live).
• Understanding of audio codecs, jitter buffers, and packet loss concealment in network streaming.
• Proven experience shipping production conversational voice products.

How to Apply:

Interested in exploring this opportunity? Submit your profile or portfolio directly to contact@accel-dna.com or apply through https://accel-dna.com/contact-us/.