Software Engineer – Agent Experience

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Treat coding agents as a top-tier user of AssemblyAI.

• Develop and maintain skills for Speech-to-Text, Real-time, Dictation, Voice Agents, TTS, and LLM Gateway products.

• Enhance the AssemblyAI MCP server and facilitate the deployment of agent and MCP authentication using OAuth and API keys.

• Integrate with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other future coding agents.

• Manage llms.txt, machine-readable documentation, quickstarts, and SDK examples.

• Optimize system prompts, tool definitions, and agent instructions for the in-dashboard agent and onboarding processes.

• Create evaluations and benchmarks utilizing real coding agents and integration tasks.

• Monitor success rates, time to first successful call, and activation from agent-driven signups.

• Scale effective agent-experience strategies across all products.

• Utilize AI tools in daily tasks and assist engineering teams in accelerating development with agents.

• Collaborate closely with senior engineers on the Product Engineering team, taking ownership from day one.

⛳️ Requirements

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• Strong full-stack development skills with JavaScript and/or Python.

• Regular, hands-on experience with coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.

• Practical experience in writing prompts, skills, tool definitions, or agent instructions.

• Interest in assessing agent performance through evaluations.

• A strong product sense for developer-focused work.

• Proficient technical writing skills.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and a proactive approach to shipping products.

• Familiarity with MCP, LLM tool calling, and how agents interact with documentation and APIs (nice to have).

• Experience building or contributing to an MCP server, agent skill library, or coding agent plugin (nice to have).

• Background in developer relations, documentation engineering, or SDK experience at an API-first company (nice to have).

• Knowledge of Voice AI, speech-to-text, or LLM APIs (nice to have).

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and commitment to pay equity.

• Opportunities for compensation, benefits, and other rewards.

• Candidate AI Guidance detailing permissible AI use throughout the interview process.