Cloaked
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SeniorSoftwareEngineer,VoiceAI
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“Senior Software Engineer, Voice AI at Cloaked. Skills: Voice AI, Real-time systems, LLMs, Python, Go. Lead the technical roadmap and architecture for Call Guard’s real-time voice AI stack. Design and build production voice agents that converse with unknown callers, classify intent, and block scams autonomously. Optimize real-time conversational latency end-to-end. Build defenses against adversarial AI callers, including voice-cloned attacks. Integrate and evaluate frontier models for production ”
What You'll Achieve.
Help the team ship features faster and with fewer bugs by setting the technical standard for the product. Contribute across engineering teams beyond Call Guard as the business scales.
Industry & Context.
distributed systems; real-time infrastructure; adversarial robustness; system design
Passion for security, privacy, and internet ethics. Experience in startups or growth-stage companies.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Software engineering fundamentals. Production systems, distributed systems, real-time infrastructure. Hands-on experience building voice or conversational AI products in production. Proficiency with modern voice AI stacks: STT (Whisper, Deepgram, etc.), TTS (ElevenLabs, Cartesia, etc.), real-time orchestration (LiveKit, Pipecat, or similar). Deep familiarity with LLMs and agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, or equivalents) in production environments. Experience optimizing for sub-second end-to-end latency in real-time systems. Proficiency in Python and/or Go, with a track record of building scalable backend systems. Experience designing and deploying secure, production-grade APIs. Understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and containerized deployments. Track record shipping consumer products at scale. Active daily use of AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude, Codex) with prompt judgment and tool selection instincts.
Nice to Have
Experience with telephony, VoIP, SIP, or carrier-level call routing. Background in speech recognition, signal processing, or audio engineering. Familiarity with adversarial ML, AI safety, or anti-fraud system design. PII handling and sensitive data awareness. Prior exposure to consumer privacy or security-focused products. Experience with WebRTC or real-time media infrastructure.
What You'll Do.
Lead the technical roadmap and architecture for Call Guard’s real-time voice AI stack.
Design and build production voice agents that converse with unknown callers, classify intent, and block scams autonomously.
Optimize real-time conversational latency end-to-end.
Build defenses against adversarial AI callers, including voice-cloned attacks.
Integrate and evaluate frontier models for production use.
Own VoIP routing, telephony integration, and the cloud infrastructure.
Collaborate with design, mobile, and product teams.
Serve as the voice AI domain expert.
Help the team ship features faster and with fewer bugs.
Actively leverage AI tools in day-to-day engineering work.
Contribute across engineering teams beyond Call Guard.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with design, mobile, and product teams to ship voice experiences that feel effortless to end users. Serve as the voice AI domain expert on the team, raising the engineering bar through code reviews, architecture discussions, and mentorship. Help the team ship features faster and with fewer bugs by setting the technical standard for the product. Comfortable mentoring and knowledge sharing across teams.
Communication Scope
mentorship; knowledge sharing
Full Job Description
Cloaked https://cloaked.com/ is a privacy startup dedicated to rebuilding consumer trust in how personal data is used. Our vision is to create an internet that serves the needs of its users, first and foremost - with individual privacy and opt-in at the core. Our product is a virtual “cloak” that you use as you visit any website - Facebook, Amazon, etc. It lets you choose to share all, some, or none of your private information based on your personal preference. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead the development and strategic direction of Call Guard, our AI call screening product. Call Guard intercepts unknown callers, runs a real-time AI conversation, and only rings users through if the call is legit - protecting them from the spam, scam, and AI voice-cloning wave. 50M+ calls screened to date. You’ll own the technical roadmap end-to-end: real-time voice agent design, conversational latency, adversarial robustness against AI-generated callers, and the cloud infrastructure underneath. Long-term, this role grows beyond Call Guard. You’ll contribute across Cloaked’s engineering org and help shape how we build AI-native consumer products at scale. WHAT WILL YOU DO? - Lead the technical roadmap and architecture for Call Guard’s real-time voice AI stack - Design and build production voice agents that converse with unknown callers, classify intent, and block scams autonomously - Optimize real-time conversational latency end-to-end - from STT, through agent reasoning, to TTS - Build defenses against adversarial AI callers, including voice-cloned attacks targeting our users - Integrate and evaluate frontier models (LLMs, speech models, agent frameworks) for production use - Own VoIP routing, telephony integration, and the cloud infrastructure that the voice agent runs on - Collaborate with design, mobile, and product teams to ship voice experiences that feel effortless to end users - Serve as the voice AI domain expert on the team, raising the
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