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Staff AI Engineer - USA

Podium81
4 months ago
Full-time
Remote
Worldwide
Remote Engineering

At Podium, we bring AI Employees to local businesses that turn every conversation into revenue. Trusted by 60,000+ businesses across Auto, Home Services, and Aesthetics, Podium captures and converts leads 24/7, driving both new business and repeat customers.

In under 24 months, we crossed $100M in AI Agent ARR, scaling 300% year-over-year. During this time, we’ve deployed 10,000 AI employees to empower real business outcomes for our customers. Podium is building what we believe will be the most impactful AI employee ecosystem for local business.

Podium has been recognized as the Best AI Implementation by Inc. Magazine, highlighted by OpenAI for building revenue-driving AI Agents, and awarded the #1 AI Agent for Business Operations by G2.

Our growth is fueled by hiring exceptional people, holding them to high standards, and creating opportunities for them to grow and make an impact. Our operating principles guide daily behavior and ensure we hire people who will thrive at Podium. If you're hungry for growth, aligned to our operating principles, and ready to get to work, you won't find a better place to learn and accelerate your career.

Staff AI Engineer

The Role

We are looking for a talented Staff AI Engineer to help build and scale our AI Agent platformβ€”a powerful system that autonomously interacts with customers, handling millions of conversations every month. In this role, you’ll design and deliver the software that enables local businesses to manage complex customer interactions automatically, book more appointments, and serve their customers more effectively across multiple channels (e.g., voice, SMS, chat).

If you thrive in fast-paced, highly iterative environments, enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges, and want to see your work drive immediate business impact, this role is for you!

What you will be doing

  • Build and scale the AI Agent platform β€” enabling high-volume, real-time conversational workflows that deliver accuracy and low latency at scale.
  • Design and implement APIs, services, and infrastructure that power multi-turn, cross-channel customer interactions.
  • Own the full lifecycle: architecture, implementation, deployment, and ongoing reliability.
  • Prototype rapidly, iterate with live interaction data, and continuously improve system performance and user experience.
  • Implement