Software Engineer - Remote, Agentic Frameworks & AI Agents

AI Chopping Block; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Equity package

Open source collaboration

Job summary

LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing. The role sits in the Agents team, crafting core abstractions and infrastructure that enable real-time voice and text interactions, durable workflows, and cross-agent communication.

You will work primarily with Python and TypeScript, design powerful APIs for developers, and iterate based on community feedback. LiveKit offers competitive salary and equity, comprehensive health benefits, and flexible, remote

Qualifications

• Experienced building LLM-based applications and agentic systems.
• Skilled at navigating complex systems and turning complexity into clean abstractions.
• Comfortable reasoning about state, concurrency and asynchronous workflows.
• Product-minded and excited about designing APIs and developer experiences.
• Experience building developer tools, frameworks, or SDKs is a plus.
• Interested in exploring emerging patterns in agent architecture rather than simply applying established ones.
• Comfortable working collaboratively in a remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop core functionality for the LiveKit Agents framework.
• Help define the text modality of the framework, enabling agents to interact with users across channels such as SMS.
• Design abstractions for stateful and durable agentic workflows, allowing agents to maintain state and coordinate work across interactions that may span minutes, hours, or longer.
• Shape agent-to-agent communication and delegation patterns, enabling voice agents to hand off tasks, collaborate, and compose into more sophisticated systems.
• Build simple, powerful developer APIs over complex distributed and real-time systems.
• Iterate quickly based on feedback from our developer community.
• Write clear documentation, examples, and reference implementations.
• Work primarily with Python and TypeScript.

Skills

LLM-based applications

Agentic systems

API design

Developer tools / SDKs

Python

TypeScript

Job description

LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing. The role sits in the Agents team, crafting core abstractions and infrastructure that enable real-time voice and text interactions, durable workflows, and cross-agent communication.

You will work primarily with Python and TypeScript, design powerful APIs for developers, and iterate based on community feedback. LiveKit offers competitive salary and equity, comprehensive health benefits, and flexible, remote