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Software Engineer, Agents

LiveKit· R&D
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Remote$135k - $300kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Engineer to join the LiveKit Agents team building core abstractions and infrastructure for agentic computing, including real-time voice/text interactions, durable workflows, and agent-to-agent communication.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:LLM-based application developmentStateful and durable workflows designAgent-to-agent communicationPythonTypeScript

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Opportunity to contribute to open source
  • Opportunity to build something impactful
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Open source agent framework and cloud platform for apps that see, hear, and speak.

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