Cresta Series D+

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA On-site $185K–$235K Mid (3-5 yrs) Added Jun 18

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><p>Cresta unlocks the true potential of the customer experience, turning every conversation into a competitive advantage. Cresta’s unified AI platform combines conversational AI agents, real-time human agent augmentation, and comprehensive conversation intelligence to drive revenue and efficiency gains across every channel. The world’s leading companies, including United Airlines, Cox Communications, and Marriott, use Cresta to power world-class customer experiences every day. </p> <p>Born from the Stanford AI Lab, Cresta has raised more than $270 million from the world’s leading investors, including a16z, Greylock, and Sequoia. Cresta’s leadership includes some of the leading minds in AI today. Our CEO, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pingwu/">Ping Wu</a>, founded and led Google's Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platforms before joining Cresta to build the future of AI-driven customer experiences.</p> <p>Over the next few years, AI is going to redefine how people all over the world interact with businesses every day. Come build that future at Cresta.</p></div><h4>About the role:</h4> <p>At Cresta, the AI Agent team is on a mission to create state-of-the-art AI Agents that solve practical problems for our customers. We are focused on leveraging the latest technologies in Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI Agent systems, while ensuring that the solutions we develop are cost-effective, secure, and reliable. </p> <p>As an <strong>AI Agent Engineer</strong>, you'll be at the forefront of deploying AI agents that address real-world challenges. In this role, you will work closely with customers as well as our software and machine learning engineers, ensuring high-impact AI Agent deployments and contributing to the continuous improvement of our core AI platform. You’ll develop intelligent AI agents, integrate them seamlessly with external systems and offer hands-on technical expertise to ensure successful deployments..

Industry

AI/Contact Center

Top skills for this role

  • AI agent development and deployment (LLM
  • RAG
  • function calling)
  • 2. Contact center/conversational AI domain knowledge
  • 3. Customer-facing technical advisory with enterprise clients

Languages

PythonGolang (Sr)

Frameworks & tools

AI agent frameworksLLM APIsRAGcloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

AI / ML skills

LLM hands-onprompt engineeringAI agent systemsfunction callingRAG

Customer skills

Direct customer collaboration; requirements gathering; technical advisory; POC demonstrations

Domain knowledge

Contact center AI; conversational AI; enterprise integrations (APIs, CRMs, databases)

Travel: not specified
Equity: yes

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