Staff Software Engineer

Uniphore is one of the largest B2B AI-native companies—decades-proven, built-for-scale and designed for the enterprise. The company drives business outcomes, across multiple industry verticals, and enables the largest global deployments.  
  
Uniphore infuses AI into every part of the enterprise that impacts the customer. We deliver the only multimodal architecture centered on customers that combines Generative AI, Knowledge AI, Emotion AI, workflow automation and a co-pilot to guide you. We understand better than anyone how to capture voice, video and text and how to analyze all types of data.  
  
As AI becomes more powerful, every part of the enterprise that impacts the customer will be disrupted. We believe the future will run on the connective tissue between people, machines and data: all in the service of creating the most human processes and experiences for customers and employees.   

Job Description:
 

Uniphore is a leading B2B AI-native company with decades of proven success. Engineered for scalability and tailored for enterprise needs, we drive AI transformation that delivers real business impact across multiple industries and the largest global deployments.  

At Uniphore we are building the modern GenAI stack for the enterprise. That includes all required layers and capabilities: data; knowledge; agents model training, deployment and operationalization; and applications that act both as conduits for GenAI actions as well as sources of training data for our models.  

As AI becomes more powerful, every part of the enterprise that impacts the customer will be disrupted. We believe the future will run on the connective tissue between people, machines, and data: all in the service of creating the most human processes and experiences for customers and employees.  

Today, Uniphore’s technology empowers over 750,000 end-users across 1,600 enterprises in 20 countries. Discover the unmatched capabilities of Uniphore—because there’s no AI like it™.  

Staff Software Engineer

Location: Hybird, onsite 2-3 days/week in Palo Alto, CA

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer specializing in AI Engineering with deep expertise in distributed systems and Conversational AI. In this role, you will lead the design and development of an enterprise-grade conversational AI platform, building intelligent virtual assistants and AI-driven solutions for enterprise customers.

You’ll work at the intersection of large-scale distributed infrastructure and cutting-edge AI/ML, ensuring that our conversational products are scalable, reliable, and deliver state-of-the-art experiences in natural language understanding and dialogue.

This position combines technical leadership with hands-on development, offering the opportunity to shape the future of conversational AI products used by thousands of enterprise users. 

Responsibilities:

• Design and build distributed software systems and microservices to support large-scale conversational AI solutions, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and performance under heavy load. 

• Lead the development of advanced Conversational AI capabilities (NLP and generative AI models), delivering intelligent dialogue systems and virtual assistants for enterprise users. This includes working on natural language understanding, intent recognition, and integration of large language models to enhance user interactions. 

• Ensure end-to-end quality of AI-driven applications, including rigorous testing, test automation, performance tuning, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and deployment of ML models. You will drive best practices in MLOps to streamline model training, validation, and rollout to production. 

• Deploy and orchestrate AI services on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure) using containerization technologies like Kubernetes and Docker to achieve scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure for conversational AI products. 

• Architect solutions for real-time data processing and streaming (using technologies like Kafka or similar) to enable responsive, data-driven AI interactions, and ensure efficient data storage and retrieval by leveraging both relational and NoSQL database systems for conversation context and analytics. 

• Collaborate closely with research scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to integrate the latest AI breakthroughs into the pl