Voice AI Engineer
Posted 3 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Lead Voice AI Engineer”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 7+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Hybrid
No salary listed for this role.
Who We Are
Simpplr is the AI-powered intranet for unifying the digital workplace. It brings people, trusted knowledge, apps, and agents into a coherent digital experience. Powered by a proprietary EX Knowledge Graph, Simpplr synthesizes signals and context across connected systems to deliver personalized information and actions. The platform serves as a digital hub supporting communications, engagement, employee services, and work. With low-code extensibility and enterprise-grade security and governance, Simpplr enables confident operation at scale. More than 1,000 organizations — including AAA, the NHS, Penske, and Moderna — trust Simpplr to keep their workforce informed, aligned, and productive. Learn more at simpplr.com.
About the role
We are looking for a Lead Voice AI Engineer to build production-grade Voice Agents for frontline heavy verticals like healthcare, manufacturing, warehousing, retail, hospitality focusing on employee support, procurement, collections, logistics, ordering etc.
You will lead the design of low-latency, real-time voice systems combining ASR, TTS, LLMs, conversational AI, enterprise workflows, knowledge retrieval, compliance, and human handoff.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can take Voice AI from architecture to production.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the real-time voice runtime for live conversations.
- Build and optimize streaming ASR, TTS, VAD, endpointing, turn-taking, and barge-in.
- Build adaptive voice pipelines for high-noise frontline environments (60-112 dB), hospitals, factory floors, warehouses, including server-side noise cancellation, echo suppression, and dynamic ASR/TTS optimization for PSTN and mobile phone audio quality.
- Architect multi-provider speech routing across a broad multilingual matrix, including code-switching (e.g., Spanglish, Hinglish), where no single ASR or TTS provider covers all languages, and language detection, provider selection, and fallback chains must operate in real time mid-call.
- Develop Voice Agents that support multi-turn, multi-intent conversations, context switching, clarification, and recovery.
- Integrate Voice Agents with workflows, APIs, CRM, ITSM, knowledge bases, and enterprise systems.
- Build secure identity verification, consent, privacy, audit, and compliance controls.
- Implement warm transfer, callback, queue routing, and seamless human handoff with full conversation context.
- Optimize multilingual voice quality across accents, noisy environments, latency, and naturalness.
- Build evaluation frameworks for WER, intent accuracy, response latency, containment, resolution, escalation, and CSAT.