Software Engineer, Agents

LiveKit, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

United States

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• An opportunity to build something truly impactful to the world
• Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers
• Competitive salary and equity package
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible vacation policy

Skills & Technologies

Python

TypeScript

Remote

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About LiveKit, Inc.

LiveKit provides open-source and cloud infrastructure for real-time audio and video applications, offering SDKs, APIs, and managed services that enable developers to embed scalable WebRTC-based communication into apps with features such as live streaming, video calls, and AI-driven voice agents.

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