Senior Software Engineer: Voice AI for Humanoid Robots

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

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Insurance coverage (medical, dental,視)

Paid time off

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Equity awards

Remote and/or hybrid work

Job summary

Cerence Inc. in the California Bay Area is hiring a Sr. Software Engineer to drive the humanoid robot's application and cognitive layer. You will craft high-level voice applications, multi-modal context systems, and behavior trees to enable interactive, reliable robot actions.

Join a team blending Voice AI, Agentic AI, and Physical AI, collaborating with robotics, AI, cloud, and embedded systems experts to push the boundaries of human-robot interaction.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++.
• Experience with API-driven, distributed, event-driven architectures.
• Experience with edge compute and cloud AI services.
• Strong human-robot interaction design mindset.

Responsibilities

• Implement high-level application software and robotic behavioral state machines.
• Translate human speech, gestures, and context into robotic tasks.
• Integrate vision pipelines, object detection, scene understanding, spatial tracking, and voice interactions.

Skills

BehaviorTree.CPP

State machines

Workflow orchestration

Task planning

LLMs

VLMs

Tool-calling

Agent frameworks

RAG systems

Semantic memory

Python

C++

API-driven architectures

Distributed systems

Event-driven architectures

Edge compute

Cloud AI services

CI/CD

Human-robot interaction

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Robotics/Software Engineering/AI

Tools

ROS2

Docker

Kubernetes

OTA updates

Job description

Cerence Inc. in the California Bay Area is hiring a Sr. Software Engineer to drive the humanoid robot's application and cognitive layer. You will craft high-level voice applications, multi-modal context systems, and behavior trees to enable interactive, reliable robot actions.

Join a team blending Voice AI, Agentic AI, and Physical AI, collaborating with robotics, AI, cloud, and embedded systems experts to push the boundaries of human-robot interaction.