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What they do

LiveKit makes an open-source framework and a cloud platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents. It started in 2021 as an open-source project for live video with WebRTC. LiveKit says that more than 300,000 developers and teams use it, among them OpenAI, Salesforce, Spotify, and Meta.

What they value

• Work hard, and build and ship fast.
• Be the go-to person for tough problems.
• Care about polish, detail, and quality.
• Explain complex technical ideas clearly.
• Help developers and customers succeed.

Where they hire

Twenty-eight of 29 Postings are remote, and one is hybrid in San Francisco. Twenty-two are open in the United States or North America, and five name Canada. Five engineering roles are also open in Asia-Pacific and Europe. Seven name only the United Kingdom, Ireland, or Germany. No Posting mentions visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

• Engineering: five roles, for agents, distributed systems, the product, and reinforcement learning research.
• Forward deployed engineering: four roles, in the US, the UK, and Ireland, one of them for Spanish speakers.
• Trust: two security engineers and an IT engineer.
• Design: three roles, among them a design engineer for the website.
• Sales and marketing: two solutions architects, an account executive, and two developer advocates.
• Other roles in developer success, product, finance, and recruiting.

What they look for

Distributed systems engineers need Go and work with pub/sub or coordination systems. The product engineer needs 6+ years and TypeScript. The research engineer needs strong Python and reinforcement learning. Forward deployed engineers need 7+ years in backend or infrastructure work. Solutions architects need 4+ years, a cloud provider, and Python, TypeScript, or Go. Customer-facing roles ask for WebRTC, telephony, or the voice AI stack. Eleven Postings ask for people who build and ship fast.