Software Engineer, Agents

The role

You will design and develop core functionality for the LiveKit Agents framework. You will work on abstractions for stateful workflows, agent-to-agent communication, and developer APIs using Python and TypeScript.

What you will do

• Design and develop core functionality for the LiveKit Agents framework
• Help define the text modality of the framework
• Design abstractions for stateful and durable agentic workflows
• Shape agent-to-agent communication and delegation patterns
• 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

Required qualifications

• 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
• Interested in exploring emerging patterns in agent architecture rather than simply applying established ones
• Comfortable working collaboratively in a remote environment

Nice to have

• Experience building developer tools, frameworks, or SDKs

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

About the company

LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing. The platform powers voice and agentic AI applications for OpenAI, Salesforce, Spotify, Meta, and tens of thousands of other developers.