$200,000–$325,000
Senior Staff Software Engineer_ Voice AI Agent Prompting
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$190,900–$334,100annualizedSanta Clara, CAStaff
Build and operate production voice AI agents with CTI, CCaaS, and telephony integrations.
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At a glance
Posted base pay
$191K–$334KAbove the median
Median $190K
This job$191K–$334KTypical senior FDE payMiddle 50% of 1,789 postings$160K–$220KThe work
Builds what the customer runs
Balance
- Mostly building
- Mixed
- Mostly pre-sales or support
Project stages
- Pre-sales (not covered)
- Proof of concept (not covered)
- Implementation
- Operations
- Coding
- Writes production code
- Builds for
- External customers
- Level
- Senior
- Role
- Individual contributor
What they ask for
Experience
Background
Tools
Less common in FDE jobs
- Company stage: Public33%
- Company size: About 5,000+ people38%
- Individual contributor or manager: Individual contributor49%
Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.
What you’ll do
- Design autonomous call workflows, autonomy boundaries, retries, escalations, and human handoffs.
- Author, version, and regression-test agent instructions, prompts, guardrails, and tool descriptions.
- Build automated evaluation, golden-call datasets, CI gates, drift detection, and adversarial testing.
- Deploy inside customer voice environments and own live-call quality, safety, and reliability.
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years deploying contemporary AI solutions at customers.
- Production experience building, shipping, and operating AI-native voice applications used by real callers.
- Hands-on expertise with voice and telephony platforms, speech recognition and synthesis, streaming audio, and live-call behavior.
- Demonstrated ability to design autonomous voice workflows and engineer prompts, instructions, tool use, grounding, and structured outputs.
About ServiceNow
Enterprise AI workflow platform connecting people, systems, data, and agents so large organizations can automate IT, employee, customer, security, and industry operations.
Public · 5000+ people
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