Senior AI Engineer - Voice & Conversational AI

towerloan; Flowood (MS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Tower Loan is seeking a Senior AI Engineer - Voice & Conversational AI to design, develop, and implement AI-powered voice solutions that enhance customer engagement and operational efficiency. You will build real-time voice apps, integrate with SIP/VoIP, and lead production delivery from concept through deployment.

The role requires strong software engineering, proficiency with AI/ML tools, and experience delivering production systems using modern stacks.

Qualifications

• Production software development experience is required.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, and real-time architectures.
• Solid understanding of LLMs, generative AI, and prompt engineering.
• Proficient troubleshooting, problem solving, and systems analysis.
• Ability to design secure, scalable and reliable solutions.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain real-time AI voice applications using LLMs and conversational AI.
• Create automated conversational workflows for customer service and reminders.
• Configure prompts, policies, security controls, escalation and tool-calling.
• Implement conversation management with interruption handling and live transfers.
• Develop apps using OpenAI Live/Realtime APIs and other AI tech.
• Manage streaming audio, transcription, and system integrations for responsiveness.
• Integrate AI voice apps with SIP/VoIP/PBX and enterprise infra.
• Develop and maintain APIs and microservices using C#, .NET, Python, JS/TS.
• Integrate AI apps with databases, payment platforms, messaging systems, and others.
• Ensure AI safety, compliance with policies and regulatory standards.
• Keep auditable records of conversations and automated actions.
• Perform automated testing, evaluations, and QA to improve accuracy and reliability.
• Monitor performance: call outcomes, latency, errors, escalations.
• Design scalable, high-availability systems with proper controls.
• Lead technical development from concept to production and mentor engineers.

Skills

Production software

APIs & microservices

LLMs & Generative AI

Troubleshooting & analysis

Secure & scalable design

Project management

Education

B.S. in CS/SE/IT or related

5+ years software dev experience

Production software delivery

Tools

OpenAI Live/Realtime APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Git

CI/CD pipelines

WebRTC

Job description

We take pride in what we do! Deciding to come grow with us is an exciting opportunity to enhance your career success stories. You are the center to what we do. We would love to have you here!

The Senior AI Engineer - Voice & Conversational AI is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing AI-powered voice solutions that enhance customer engagement and operational efficiency at Tower Loan. This position plays a key role in advancing the company's use of artificial intelligence to support customer service, account servicing, payment reminders, and other business operations.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain real-time AI voice applications using large language models, speech-to-speech technologies, and conversational AI platforms.
• Develop automated conversational workflows for customer service, payment reminders, promise-to-pay interactions, account servicing, and other business needs.
• Configure AI prompts, conversation policies, security controls, escalation procedures, and automated tool-calling capabilities.
• Implement conversation management features, including interruption handling, contextual awareness, fallback logic, and transfers to live representatives.
• Develop and integrate applications using OpenAI Live/Realtime APIs and other real-time AI technologies.
• Manage streaming audio, transcription, session processing, and system integrations to ensure reliable, responsive AI interactions.
• Integrate AI voice applications with SIP, VoIP, PBX systems, and enterprise telecommunications infrastructure to support inbound and outbound calling.
• Develop and maintain applications, APIs, and microservices using C#, .NET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or other appropriate technologies.
• Integrate AI applications with company databases, customer systems, payment platforms, messaging systems, and other business applications.
• Develop secure AI-enabled functions for account lookup, customer verification, payment-related interactions, scheduling, and transfers to live representatives.
• Implement safeguards to ensure AI interactions comply with company policies, security requirements, and applicable legal and regulatory standards.
• Maintain accurate and auditable records of AI conversations, system activities, decisions, and automated transactions.
• Develop and perform automated testing, conversation evaluations, and quality assurance processes to improve AI accuracy, reliability, and performance.
• Monitor system performance, including call outcomes, response times, errors, escalation rates, and other operational metrics.
• Design and maintain scalable, highly available systems with appropriate controls for system capacity, error handling, and service interruptions.
• Lead technical development from initial concept through production implementation while maintaining system security, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Serve as a senior technical resource for conversational AI technologies and provide guidance to other engineers.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Strong software engineering skills with experience developing and supporting production applications.
• Advanced knowledge of APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and real-time application architectures.
• Strong understanding of large language models, generative AI, conversational AI, and prompt engineering.
• Advanced troubleshooting, problem-solving, and systems analysis skills.
• Ability to design secure, scalable, and reliable technical solutions.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field preferred. Equivalent professional experience may be considered.
• Five or more years of professional software development experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience developing and delivering production software systems required.
• Experience developing AI-powered applications, particularly conversational AI or large language model solutions, strongly preferred.
• Experience with real-time voice technologies, streaming APIs, SIP, RTP, WebRTC, WebSocket, or enterprise telephony systems preferred.
• Experience with OpenAI Live/Realtime APIs and related AI development platforms preferred.
• Proficiency with C#, .NET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar programming languages preferred.
• Experience with technologies such as SQL Server, Redis, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, REST APIs, Git, and CI/CD pipelines preferred.
• Familiarity with speech recognition, text-to-speech, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI evaluation frameworks, and AI safety controls preferred.
• Experience in consumer finance, lending, collections, banking, payment processing