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Software Engineer (Agentic Systems)

Dialpad · Bay Area, US · On-site

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About Dialpad

Dialpad's AI-native contact center and communications platform connects human agents with AI voice and digital agents for great CX at scale. Backed by a16z, GV and Felicis.

About the role

Dialpad is the AI platform for customer experience, built to resolve customer problems in real time across voice and digital. Our AI agents learn from your best human agents and improve with every interaction, helping organizations understand their customers, deliver better experiences, increase operational efficiencies, and build a lasting competitive advantage.

What they're looking for

  • Drive Technical Strategy: Own the architectural roadmap and delivery of Dialpad’s Agentic infrastructure, core orchestration layers, memory architectures, and evaluation/observability systems
  • Build & Scale: Design and deploy scalable, multi-modal AI agents capable of autonomous support, real-time voice reasoning, and secure API tool execution across complex enterprise workflows
  • Mentor & Influence: Act as a technical anchor for the organization, raising the engineering bar, mentoring senior peers, and defining technical standards for an AI-native SDLC
  • Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with leadership across Product, Engineering, and Applied Research to align technical execution with Dialpad’s long-term business strategy
  • Experience: 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership (as a Staff, Senior Staff, or Principal Engineer) shipping complex, large-scale systems
  • Systems Background: Strong foundations in scaling distributed systems and production-grade infrastructure before evolving into applied AI, LLM platforms, and agentic architectures
More about this role

About Dialpad

Dialpad is the AI platform for customer experience, built to resolve customer problems in real time across voice and digital. Our AI agents learn from your best human agents and improve with every interaction, helping organizations understand their customers, deliver better experiences, increase operational efficiencies, and build a lasting competitive advantage.

Unlike legacy systems built to route and answer, or standalone agentic bot vendors built to deflect, Dialpad was built to resolve. Our AI agents and human agents operate on a single platform with shared context, allowing Agentic AI to resolve issues, advance deals, and eliminate busywork through automation while seamlessly handing conversations to humans when needed, with full context preserved.

Market-leading brands, including Randstad, Motorola Solutions, Netflix, the San Diego Padres, the Colorado Rockies Baseball Club, and Cal Athletics, trust Dialpad. Dialpad is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, GV, ICONIQ Capital, and T-Mobile.

Being a Dialer

At Dialpad, AI isn’t just a feature; it’s how our teams do their best work every day. We put powerful AI tools in every employee’s hands so they can move faster,...

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