# Telephony Infrastructure Engineer at Salient

- Company: Salient
- What the company does: Salient automates collections, servicing, regulatory audit, insurance claims, and dispute resolution for consumer lenders. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.
- Company website: https://www.trysalient.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: SF Headquarters
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-26
- Apply by: 2026-11-10
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/salient/6af0cafd-bd6b-425e-9154-020ec8711776
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/salient-telephony-infrastructure-engineer/

## About the role

We're hiring a Telephony Infrastructure Engineer to own the voice platform behind Salient's AI agents: the SIP edge, Asterisk, the voice audio and dialing layers, and the call servers that connect borrowers to our agents. You will work directly with our AI agent engineers, telephony specialist, customer success, and carriers.

## What they're looking for

- • You've run production voice infrastructure at meaningful scale and have been on call for it
- • You know SIP, SDP, and RTP deeply and debug from traces and pcaps
- • You can debug EC2/K8s networking issues that result in deadair—and develop monitoring and testing plans to minimize deadair
- • You understand real-time media, WebRTC, and latency budgets
- • You design for backpressure, graceful degradation, and safe deploys of stateful services
- • You've built load tests that found real bottlenecks before customers did

Tags: Engineering