Remote Senior Robot AI Engineer - Voice & Apps

Cerence Inc.; California; Remote; USD 107,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary range $107,000 - $172,000 USD

Annual bonus opportunity

Medical, dental, vision, life, and dis

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Equity for certain positions

Job summary

Cerence Inc. is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to advance the robot applications and voice AI layer for humanoid robotics. You will turn human intent into high-level robotic actions, building multi-modal context systems and robust voice applications.

Join a team working on Edge/Cloud partitioning, state machines, and agent frameworks to deliver real-world, interactive robotic solutions across devices and services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering in Python and/or C++.
• Experience designing scalable, API-driven, distributed services and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with edge compute and intermittent connectivity.
• Experience integrating cloud AI services, model serving, and containerized deployments.
• Strong QA, testing, debugging, monitoring, and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Build high-level application software and robotic behavioral state machines.
• Translate human speech, gestures, and contextual cues into robotic tasks.
• Integrate vision pipelines and multi-modal systems for contextual awareness.
• Develop voice applications managing STT, NLU, dialog, and TTS interfaces.
• Work with LLMs/VLMs, tool calling, memory systems, and robotic capabilities.
• Collaborate with robotics, cloud, and embedded systems teams.
• Contribute to testing, observability, and production deployment practices.

Skills

Orchestration

Cognitive AI

Python/C++

API/Distributed Systems

Edge Compute

CI/CD & Cloud

Human-Robot Interaction

Education

BS/MS in CS/Robotics

Tools

ROS2

Docker/Kubernetes

Voice Tech

Job description

Cerence Inc. is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to advance the robot applications and voice AI layer for humanoid robotics. You will turn human intent into high-level robotic actions, building multi-modal context systems and robust voice applications.

Join a team working on Edge/Cloud partitioning, state machines, and agent frameworks to deliver real-world, interactive robotic solutions across devices and services.