Staff Machine Learning Engineer- Voice AI

ServiceNow; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow's Advanced Technology Group seeks engineers to build an AI-powered Voice Platform for enterprise workflows. You will help create pervasive voice and ML experiences that scale across regions and data centers, focusing on reliability, security, and usability.

You will collaborate with product managers, design scalable systems, and mentor teammates while pushing the frontier of Voice AI in an enterprise context.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience in AI, ML or distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience building distributed Voice AI systems at scale.
• ~4+ years building LLM-based applications (integration, not training).
• 6+ years in Python/Golang/Java or similar languages.
• 2+ years building agents and developing LLM-based experiences.
• Experience operating highly available distributed workloads on Kubernetes.
• Security/compliance in regulated environments is a plus.
• A proven track record shipping distributed Voice AI or voice platform systems.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design, development and implementation of the core Voice Platform (Audio Acquisition, Conversation Management, Speech Generation, API integration, and Voice AI models).
• Collaborate with product managers to understand customer use cases and success metrics.
• Build and deploy large Voice AI distributed systems across regions and data centers.
• Write high-quality, scalable code and enforce best practices in software engineering.
• Contribute to ongoing improvements of the SRE practice with tooling requirements.
• Mentor colleagues and promote knowledge-sharing across Voice AI engineering.

Skills

Distributed systems

Voice AI

LLM integration

Python

Go

Kubernetes

DevOps

Prompt engineering

Security

Speech technologies

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Windsurf

WebRTC

STT/TTS

Job description

Company Description

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.

Join us to put AI to work for people.

Job Description

What you get to do in this role:

The Advanced Technology Group (ATG) at ServiceNow is a customer-focused innovation group building intelligent softwareandsmartuser experiencesusing existing and latest advancedtechnologies to enable end-to-end, industry-leading work experiences for customers.We are a group of researchers, applied scientists, engineers, and product managers with a dual mission.We build and evolve the AI platform, and partner with teams to build products and end-to-end AI-powered work experiences.In equal measure, we lay the foundations, research, experiment, and de-risk AI technologies that unlock new work experiences in the future.

You will play a major part in building AI and Machine Learning (ML) solutions that transform the user experience and workflow efficiency of enterprise services. Traditional analytical tools tend to require a technically knowledgeable user to produce even simple results. We are taking a completely fresh approach with the expectation that anyuser, regardless of technical knowledge, can use the AI/ML solutions we develop to operate the services in the enterprise setting in a thoughtful and scalable manner.We are just getting started with our early-adopter customers and we need your help in building and making available an amazing range of solutions to our 5k+ enterprise customers around the world.

• Contribute to the design, development and implementation of the core Voice Platform (Audio Acquisition, Conversation Management, Speech Generation, integration with API and self-hosted Voice AI models, Voice Harness)
• Partner with product managers to work with customers, understand their use cases and technology challenges, and build for their success
• Build and deploy large Voice AI distributed systems at scale spanning multiple regions and datacenters
• Build high-quality, clean, scalable and reusable code by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes (Code Reviews, Unit testing, etc.)
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the SRE practice by turning operational use cases into requirements for software tooling
• Be a mentor for colleagues and help promote knowledge-sharing across Voice AI engineering disciplines

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
• 8+ year of relevant industry experience
• Hands-on experience building distributed Voice AI systems with a large operational scale
• ~4+ years building LLM-based applications (integrating models, not training)
• 6+ years of development experience with Python,Golang, Java, or similar languages.
• 2+ years of experience building agents (prompt engineering) and developing LLM-based experiences
• Working experienceoperatinghighly availabledistributed workloads on Kubernetes following a DevOps approach.
• Experience building software for compliance and security in regulated environments is considered an asset
• A proven track record of architecting and shipping distributed Voice AI or voice platform systems (real-time audio, STT/TTS, telephony or WebRTC) at large operational scale
• Critically thinking around AI integrations for work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
• Experience building with AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf

Additional Information

Work Personas

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here . To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

Accommodations

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