Real-Time AI Solutions Engineer

LiveKit Incorporated; Ireland; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity package

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Flexible vacation policy

Open source contributions

Job summary

LiveKit Incorporated is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work with customers on real‑time audio, video, and AI applications built on the LiveKit platform. You will design architectures, create reference implementations, and help customers deploy scalable solutions across environments.

You’ll collaborate with Product and Engineering to improve developer experience, tooling, and documentation, while solving complex technical challenges in production environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Strong programming capability in Go, Python, Node, Rust, or C++.
• Experience with APIs, SDKs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience building developer platforms or real‑time systems.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customer engineering teams to design and implement real‑time applications on the LiveKit platform.
• Design scalable architectures for voice AI, real‑time media, and developer platform use cases.
• Build prototype integrations, reference implementations, and sample apps to accelerate customer development.
• Help customers navigate SDKs, APIs, infrastructure, and deployment strategies for production systems.
• Debug and troubleshoot complex technical issues in production environments.
• Lead technical workshops and architecture sessions with developers and product teams.
• Translate customer needs into technical insights that inform product and platform development.
• Contribute to LiveKit’s open‑source ecosystem when helpful.
• Act as a trusted advisor helping customers launch and scale applications on LiveKit

Skills

Go

Python

Node.js

Rust

C++

Job description

LiveKit Incorporated is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work with customers on real‑time audio, video, and AI applications built on the LiveKit platform. You will design architectures, create reference implementations, and help customers deploy scalable solutions across environments.

You’ll collaborate with Product and Engineering to improve developer experience, tooling, and documentation, while solving complex technical challenges in production environments.