Remote Forward Deployed Engineer: Real-Time AI & Voice

AI Chopping Block; Miami, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Competitive salary and equity package

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

LiveKit is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers building real-time communication and AI applications on the LiveKit platform. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and customer implementation, collaborating with customer teams to design, prototype, and deploy solutions.

You will help customers deploy and scale applications, design architectures for voice AI and real-time media, and contribute to reference implementations while solving

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience with distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience building or integrating developer platforms or real-time systems.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customer engineering teams to design and implement real-time applications built on LiveKit.
• 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.
• Lead technical workshops and architecture sessions with developers and product teams.
• Translate customer needs into technical insights that inform product development.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go

Python

Node.js

Rust

C++

Tools

Go

Python

Node.js

Rust

C++

Job description

LiveKit is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers building real-time communication and AI applications on the LiveKit platform. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and customer implementation, collaborating with customer teams to design, prototype, and deploy solutions.

You will help customers deploy and scale applications, design architectures for voice AI and real-time media, and contribute to reference implementations while solving