Senior Voice AI Engineer — Real-Time Conversational Systems

Blooming Health, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Blooming Health is hiring an AI Engineer with strong voice AI experience to design and build real-time, conversational voice systems and orchestration layers. You will work closely with leadership to ship reliable AI features with attention to latency, evaluation, and software quality.

You will contribute across speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and LLM-based workflows, integrating tools like Twilio or similar real-time communication stacks, and build production-grade Python services.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and shipping voice AI or real-time conversational AI systems in production.
• Experience working with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, telephony, or streaming audio pipelines.
• Strong understanding of latency, interruptions, barge-in, turn-taking, transcription quality, and conversation flow.

Responsibilities

• Design and build voice AI systems for real-time, conversational user experiences.
• Develop and maintain AI orchestration layers, including agent workflows, state management, and system handoffs.
• Architect and improve workflows across speech-to-text, LLM reasoning, tool calling, and text-to-speech.
• Think through tradeoffs in conversation design, prompt design, tool architecture, latency, and turn-taking.
• Build systems that handle ambiguity, interruptions, edge cases, and real-world voice interaction challenges.
• Write clean, tested, production-ready Python across APIs, services, and orchestration code.
• Design data pipelines that capture, transform, and surface insights from patient and member interactions.
• Partner on technical direction and help shape how Blooming Health builds and deploys voice-based AI products.

Skills

Voice AI in production

Speech-to-text pipelines

Text-to-speech pipelines

Telephony/real-time audio pipelines

LLM APIs

Prompt engineering

Conversational AI workflows

Async Python

API/backend services

Clean code & testing

SQL PostgreSQL

ETL pipelines

Data modeling

Kafka

Airflow

Dagster

dbt

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Kafka

Airflow

Dagster

dbt

Job description

Blooming Health is hiring an AI Engineer with strong voice AI experience to design and build real-time, conversational voice systems and orchestration layers. You will work closely with leadership to ship reliable AI features with attention to latency, evaluation, and software quality.

You will contribute across speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and LLM-based workflows, integrating tools like Twilio or similar real-time communication stacks, and build production-grade Python services.