$200,000–$325,000
Senior Staff Software Engineer-Voice AI Agent Prompting
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$190,900–$334,100annualizedSanta Clara, CAStaff
Build and ship 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 1,803 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: Public28%
- Company size: About 5,000+ people35%
- Individual contributor or manager: Individual contributor49%
Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.
What you’ll do
- Design autonomous call workflows with human handoffs, retries, escalation, and confirmation controls.
- Author, version, and evaluate agent instructions, prompts, guardrails, and tool descriptions.
- Build automated evaluation, regression, drift-detection, and adversarial testing for live voice behavior.
- Deploy forward with customers and own live-call quality, safety, reliability, and observability.
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years deploying contemporary AI solutions at customers.
- Demonstrated experience shipping and operating production voice applications and AI-native voice agent features.
- Hands-on expertise in telephony, speech recognition and synthesis, streaming audio, barge-in, and turn-taking.
- Experience with agent orchestration, tool/function calling, grounding, structured outputs, and autonomous workflows.
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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