Staff Machine Learning Engineer- Voice AI

ServiceNow; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Global impact

Job summary

ServiceNow’s Advanced Technology Group is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer focusing on Voice AI. You will design and scale the core Voice Platform, integrating AI into enterprise workflows and building distributed systems across regions with modern tooling and best practices.

You will collaborate with customers and PMs to define use cases, mentor peers, and advance AI-powered work experiences for 5k+ enterprise customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Experience in integrating AI into work processes or decision-making.
• 8+ years of industry experience.
• 6+ years of development in Python, Golang, or Java.
• 2+ years building agents and LLM-based experiences.
• Working with Kubernetes for highly available distributed workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement the core Voice Platform components (Audio Acquisition, Conversation Management, Speech Generation, API integration, self-hosted models).
• Collaborate with product managers to understand customer use cases and ensure success.
• Build and deploy large Voice AI distributed systems across regions and datacenters.
• Write high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code with strong engineering practices.
• Contribute to SRE improvements by turning operational needs into tooling requirements.
• Mentor teammates and promote knowledge sharing across Voice AI teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

LLM integration

Prompt engineering

Voice AI

DevOps

Mentoring

AI integration mindset

Tools

Python

Golang

Java

Kubernetes

Job description

Staff Machine Learning Engineer- Voice AI

• Full-time
• Employee Type: Regular
• Region: APAC - Asia Pacific
• Work Persona: Flexible

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.

Join us to put AI to work for people.

What you get to do in this role:

The Advanced Technology Group (ATG) at ServiceNow is a customer-focused innovation group building intelligent softwareandsmartuser experiencesusing existing and latest advancedtechnologies to enable end-to-end, industry-leading work experiences for customers.We are a group of researchers, applied scientists, engineers, and product managers with a dual mission.We build and evolve the AI platform, and partner with teams to build products and end-to-end AI-powered work experiences.In equal measure, we lay the foundations, research, experiment, and de-risk AI technologies that unlock new work experiences in the future.

You will play a major part in building AI and Machine Learning (ML) solutions that transform the user experience and workflow efficiency of enterprise services. Traditional analytical tools tend to require a technically knowledgeable user to produce even simple results. We are taking a completely fresh approach with the expectation that anyuser, regardless of technical knowledge, can use the AI/ML solutions we develop to operate the services in the enterprise setting in a thoughtful and scalable manner.We are just getting started with our early-adopter customers and we need your help in building and making available an amazing range of solutions to our 5k+ enterprise customers around the world.

• Contribute to the design, development and implementation of the core Voice Platform (Audio Acquisition, Conversation Management, Speech Generation, integration with API and self-hosted Voice AI models, Voice Harness)
• Partner with product managers to work with customers, understand their use cases and technology challenges, and build for their success
• Build and deploy large Voice AI distributed systems at scale spanning multiple regions and datacenters
• Build high-quality, clean, scalable and reusable code by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes (Code Reviews, Unit testing, etc.)
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the SRE practice by turning operational use cases into requirements for software tooling
• Be a mentor for colleagues and help promote knowledge-sharing across Voice AI engineering disciplines

To be successful in this role you have:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
• 8+ year of relevant industry experience
• Hands-on experience building distributed Voice AI systems with a large operational scale
• ~4+ years building LLM-based applications (integrating models, not training)
• 6+ years of development experience with Python,Golang, Java, or similar languages.
• 2+ years of experience building agents (prompt engineering) and developing LLM-based experiences
• Working experience operatinghighly availabledistributed workloads on Kubernetes following a DevOps approach.
• Experience building software for compliance and security in regulated environments is considered an asset
• A proven track record of architecting and shipping distributed Voice AI or voice platform systems (real-time audio, STT/TTS, telephony or WebRTC) at large operational scale
• Critically thinking around AI integrations for work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
• Experience building with AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

Accommodations

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