Forward Deployed Engineer

🕒 July 1

☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $170k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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LiveKit

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🔌 API

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📡 Telecommunications

💰 Venture Round on 2022-09

API • Artificial Intelligence • Telecommunications

LiveKit is a platform designed to facilitate real-time AI and multimedia communications. It enables the instantaneous transmission of audio and video between language models (LLMs) and users, creating real-time multimodal experiences. LiveKit provides tools for developing voice AI, robotics, and livestreaming applications, with ultra-low latency and high resilience. It supports integration with telephony networks, simulating human conversation with advanced features like interruption handling and turn-taking cue detection. The platform is geared towards developers, offering SDK support across all major platforms, allowing applications to be deployed and scaled efficiently. LiveKit is open-source under Apache 2. 0 and offers robust security measures, including end-to-end encryption and compliance with GDPR, SOC2 Type 2, CCPA, and HIPAA.

📋 Description

• Work directly (remotely or on-site when necessary) with customer engineering teams to design and implement real-time applications built on LiveKit • Design scalable architectures for voice AI, real-time media, and developer platform use cases • Build prototype integrations, reference implementations, and sample applications to accelerate customer development • Help customers navigate SDKs, APIs, infrastructure, and deployment strategies for production systems • Debug and troubleshoot complex technical issues in production environments • Lead technical workshops and architecture sessions with developers and product teams • Translate customer needs into technical insights that inform product and platform development • Partner with Product and Engineering to improve developer experience, documentation, and tooling • Contribute code, examples, or improvements to LiveKit's open-source ecosystem when helpful • Act as a trusted advisor helping customers successfully launch and scale applications on LiveKit

🎯 Requirements

• Strong engineering background with 5+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering • Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Go, Python, Node, Rust, or C++ • Comfortable working across APIs, SDKs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure • Experience building or integrating developer platforms or real-time systems • Able to quickly understand complex systems and debug issues in real-world environments • Strong communicator who can collaborate directly with customer engineering teams and internal product teams • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, low-process environments where ownership and initiative matter • Excited to work hands-on with customers solving complex technical implementation challenges

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package • Health, dental, and vision benefits • Flexible vacation policy