Decagon
Vertical AI · Customer support AI agents
Vertical AI · Customer support AI agents
Decagon currently has 42 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 88%, are focused on agents, with a smaller number in serving infrastructure and post-training. Engineering is the dominant function, with 32 positions, followed by product roles. The company is actively hiring in the United States and the United Kingdom. Recent hiring trends show a significant increase, with 16 new AI roles posted in the last 30 days, a 433% rise compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 36 active AI roles, up 118% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $150k–$430k (avg $281k).
Decagon currently has 43 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior Agent Product Manager (4), Customer Engineer, Agent Builder - Spanish Speaking (3), Engineering Lead, Strategic Deals (2), Engineering Manager, Agents (2), Senior Research Engineer (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Decagon's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (88%), serving infrastructure (5%), post-training (5%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Decagon is hiring AI talent in: United States (33 roles), United Kingdom (6 roles), Germany (1 role), Canada (1 role).
Job postings at Decagon most frequently mention: Agentic Systems, Planning & Reasoning, System Design, Machine Learning, A/B Testing.
In the past 30 days, Decagon has posted 16 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Research Engineer Research Engineer role focused on building and improving core conversational AI models and agent capabilities for enterprise customer experiences. The role involves end-to-end ownership from idea to production, including research, training, evaluation, and orchestration of LLMs. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Agents Research Engineer role focused on building and evolving agent harnesses, runtime systems, and orchestration layers for a conversational AI platform. The role involves designing and implementing systems for routing, execution, tool invocation, and safety guarantees, with a strong emphasis on optimizing for latency, reliability, and production correctness through experimentation and analysis of real-world failures. The position operates in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment, requiring collaboration with Research, Infra, and Product teams. |
| Agent |
| 9 |
| Research Engineer, Agents Research Engineer role focused on building and evolving agent harnesses, runtime systems, and control-plane logic for a conversational AI platform. The role involves designing distributed systems for agent orchestration, optimizing for latency and reliability, and iterating based on real-world failures and experimentation. It operates in a fast-moving, ambiguous space with tight feedback loops, collaborating with Research, Infra, and Product teams. | Agent | 9 |
| Staff Research Engineer Staff Research Engineer at Decagon, a conversational AI platform company. The role focuses on building and deploying industry-leading conversational AI models and agents for enterprise customer experiences. Responsibilities include leading research and engineering for core conversational capabilities, building end-to-end models and pipelines, and integrating them into production systems. Requires experience in post-training and deploying LLMs, Python, ML tooling, and a track record of delivering production impact from research ideas. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Senior Research Engineer Senior Research Engineer at Decagon, a conversational AI platform company. The role focuses on building and deploying industry-leading conversational AI models and agents, from idea to production. Responsibilities include improving core conversational capabilities, building end-to-end models and pipelines, and integrating new models into production systems. Requires 5+ years of AI/ML experience, prior experience post-training and deploying LLMs in production, and fluency in Python and ML tooling. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration Staff Software Engineer to design and build the runtime and model orchestration layer for conversational AI agents. This role focuses on the agent harness, including routing, execution logic, tool orchestration, and control-plane systems to ensure reliable, low-latency, and delightful user experiences across various channels. The position involves optimizing for latency, reliability, and production correctness, analyzing failures, building feedback loops, and adapting systems as model capabilities evolve. | Agent | 9 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration Senior Software Engineer to design and build the runtime and model orchestration layer for conversational AI agents. This role focuses on the agent harness, which handles routing, execution logic, tool orchestration, and control-plane systems for live conversations. The work involves optimizing for latency and reliability, analyzing failures, and iterating quickly to improve agent performance in production. | Agent | 9 |
| Engineering Manager, Agent Orchestration Engineering Manager to lead the Agent Orchestration team, responsible for the core execution layer of Decagon's conversational AI platform. This role involves building and leading a team, owning the technical strategy for the orchestration engine, driving architecture for complex reasoning and action flows, and ensuring reliability, testing, and observability. The focus is on coordinating model reasoning, tool use, and evaluation in production to enable predictable, safe, and scalable agent behavior. | Agent | 9 |
| Senior Research Engineer Senior Research Engineer at Decagon, a conversational AI platform company. The role focuses on improving core conversational AI agent capabilities in production, including instruction following, retrieval, memory, and long-horizon task completion. Responsibilities involve building and iterating on end-to-end models and pipelines, integrating new models into production systems, and breaking down research ideas into roadmaps. Requires 5+ years of AI/ML experience, prior experience post-training and deploying LLMs in production, fluency in Python and ML tooling, and a track record of delivering production impact from research. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Staff Research Engineer Staff Research Engineer at Decagon, a conversational AI platform company. The role focuses on building and deploying industry-leading conversational AI models and agents, from idea to production. Responsibilities include improving core conversational capabilities, building end-to-end models and pipelines, and mentoring other researchers. Requires 8+ years of experience in AI/ML, prior experience post-training and deploying LLMs, and a track record of production impact. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration Staff Software Engineer to design and build the runtime and model orchestration layer for Decagon's conversational AI platform. This role focuses on the agent harness, which handles routing, execution logic, tool orchestration, and control-plane systems for reliable, low-latency agent behavior in production. The work involves building distributed systems, optimizing for performance and reliability, and iterating based on real-world failures and experimentation. | Agent | 9 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration The Agent Orchestration team builds the runtime and model orchestration layer that powers Decagon's agents in production. This role focuses on designing and building systems that govern how Decagon agents operate in real-world environments, including execution frameworks, model orchestration logic, and experimentation platforms to ensure agents are fast, reliable, and continuously improving. The work involves optimizing for latency, reliability, and production correctness, analyzing failures, and improving observability and testing systems. | Agent | 9 |
| Senior Research Engineer Senior Research Engineer at Decagon, a conversational AI platform company. The role focuses on building and deploying industry-leading conversational AI models and agents, from idea to production. Responsibilities include improving core conversational capabilities (instruction following, retrieval, memory, long-horizon task completion), building end-to-end models and pipelines, and integrating new models into production systems. Requires 5+ years of AI/ML experience, prior experience post-training and deploying LLMs in production, and a track record of delivering measurable production impact from research ideas. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Engineering Manager, Agents Engineering Manager for an AI Agents team focused on building and shipping best-in-class AI agents for enterprise customers, driving customer retention and defining technical strategy for AI-powered customer support. | Agent | 8 |
| Customer Engineer, Agent Builder - Spanish Speaking Customer Engineer, Agent Builder role focused on end-to-end execution of AI agent builds for enterprise customers, involving architecture, agent logic, guardrails, integrations, and evaluation frameworks. Requires strong technical foundation, customer-facing experience, and Spanish fluency. | Agent | 8 |
| Customer Engineer, Agent Builder - Spanish Speaking This role is for a Customer Engineer, Agent Builder responsible for the end-to-end execution of AI agent builds for enterprise customers. The role involves designing and engineering agentic logic, implementing guardrails, building integrations, and evaluating agent performance. It requires strong technical skills, customer-facing experience, and fluency in English and Spanish. | Agent | 8 |
| Customer Engineer, Agent Builder - Spanish Speaking This role is responsible for the end-to-end execution of AI agent builds for enterprise customers, focusing on technical delivery, configuration, integration, and evaluation. The role requires strong technical skills, customer-facing experience, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. | Agent | 8 |
| Customer Engineer, Agent Builder - French Speaking Customer Engineer responsible for end-to-end execution of AI agent builds for strategic customers, including architecture, agentic logic, guardrails, integrations, and evaluation frameworks. Requires strong technical skills, customer-facing experience, and fluency in English and French. | Agent | 8 |
| Customer Engineer, Agent Builder - German Speaking Customer Engineer responsible for end-to-end execution of AI agent builds for strategic enterprise customers, including architecture, agentic logic, guardrails, integrations, and evaluation frameworks. | Agent | 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Agents Staff Software Engineer, Agents at Decagon, a conversational AI platform company. The role involves designing and building AI agents for customer interactions, identifying trends to guide platform evolution, and experimenting with/evaluating text and voice models for integration with enterprise customers. Requires 8+ years of experience, Python, Typescript, and asynchronous programming proficiency. | Agent | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Agents Engineering Manager for an AI agent platform focused on customer experience, leading a team to build and deploy AI agents for enterprise clients. The role involves technical leadership, customer collaboration, and driving the full lifecycle of agent deployments. | Agent | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Agents Software Engineer role focused on building and shipping AI agents for enterprise customers, impacting millions of users and driving company growth. The role involves designing and building agents that outperform human agents, identifying trends for platform evolution, and experimenting with/integrating text and voice models at scale. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Agents Senior Software Engineer to build and ship AI agents for customer interactions on a conversational AI platform. The role involves designing and building agents that outperform human agents, identifying trends to guide platform evolution, and experimenting with/integrating text and voice models at scale for large enterprise customers. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Agents Decagon is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Agent Engineering team. This role focuses on building and shipping AI agents that manage complex customer interactions across voice and chat channels for enterprise clients. The engineer will have end-to-end ownership, identify trends to guide platform development, and experiment with/integrate latest text and voice models at scale. | Agent | 8 |
| Customer Engineer, Agent Builder Customer Engineer, Agent Builder role focused on end-to-end execution of AI agent builds for enterprise customers, including configuration, integration, and validation of guardrails. Requires strong technical skills, customer interaction, and experience with LLM/AI agent development. | Agent | 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Voice Agent Staff Software Engineer, Voice Agent at Decagon, focusing on the architecture and evolution of the real-time voice platform for conversational AI customer experiences. The role involves leading projects to improve speech understanding, synthesis quality, timing, responsiveness, and reliability across millions of interactions, collaborating with Research, Infra, and Product teams. Responsibilities include defining standards for reliability, testing, and observability, building debugging frameworks, and mentoring senior engineers. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Engineering Lead, Strategic Deals Engineering Lead for Strategic Deals at a conversational AI platform. This role involves owning the technical build of AI agents for large enterprise clients end-to-end, from POC to stabilization. It requires working with customers to define requirements, leading a pod of engineers to ship solutions, and productionizing them for broader use. The role sits at the intersection of product strategy, technical execution, and customer engagement, with a focus on scaling AI agents for millions of users. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Engineering Lead, Strategic Deals Engineering Lead for Strategic Deals at Decagon, a conversational AI platform. This role involves owning the technical build of AI agents for large enterprise clients end-to-end, from POC to stabilization. Responsibilities include working with customers, leading a pod of engineers, productionizing solutions, and contributing to core product strategy. Requires strong engineering leadership and experience with customer-facing roles. Bonus for experience productionizing agentic systems. | AgentShip | 7 |
| AI Engineer This role focuses on building AI automation agents and intelligent solutions to improve company efficiency and effectiveness. The engineer will design and deploy agents for sales processes, growth marketing, and post-sales support, as well as build an account mapping platform using scrapers, search APIs, and LLMs. The role also involves driving an AI-native culture, identifying internal champions, and defining best practices. Success will be measured by data on hours saved and additional work delivered, with a focus on internal stakeholder satisfaction. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Product Senior Software Engineer on the Enterprise Product team at Decagon, a conversational AI platform company. This role focuses on building self-serve tools and platforms for customers to create, configure, train, and optimize AI agents for customer experiences. The engineer will translate complex AI capabilities into intuitive interfaces for both technical and non-technical users, owning features end-to-end. | Agent | 7 |
| Director of Customer Engineering, Agent Builder Director of Field Engineering leading technical delivery of AI agent deployments for enterprise customers, building teams and playbooks to scale. This role involves hands-on execution, customer engagement, and influencing the platform roadmap. | Agent | 7 |