About the Team
The Agent Orchestration team builds the runtime and model orchestration layer that powers Decagon’s agents in production. This is the orchestration layer that turns workflows, tools and guardrails into a reliable, low-latency, and delightful experience for end users.
At the core of this work is the agent harness: the routing, execution logic, tool orchestration, and control-plane systems that determine how an agent behaves in a live conversation. The team owns the full execution lifecycle of each conversation—from selecting workflows and orchestrating multiple models (e.g., router/planner/supervisor patterns), to coordinating tool calls, enforcing safety constraints, and communicating back to the user.
The team operates across both real-time systems (e.g., voice interactions with strict latency requirements) and longer-horizon execution (supporting more complex reasoning and workflows). Our research shows that an agent’s task execution reliability increasingly depends on the orchestration layer that wraps around it.
This is highly experimental, frontier-style engineering. The team continuously analyzes real-world failures, builds feedback loops through offline evaluation and online experimentation, and iterates quickly to improve quality, reliability, and capability. As model capabilities evolve, the team regularly rethinks system design to push agent performance forward in production.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Agent Orchestration team, you will design and build the systems that govern how Decagon agents operate in real-world environments.
You will own complex, distributed systems that sit at the heart of the agent runtime: execution frameworks, model orchestration logic, and experimentation platforms that ensure agents are fast, reliable, and continuously improving. Your work will directly impact how agents reason, take actions, and deliver outcomes across millions of interactions.
This role operates in a fast-moving, ambiguous space with tight feedback loops. You’ll move fluidly between diagnosing production issues, designing new system abstractions, and running experiments to improve agent behavior. You’ll collaborate closely with Research, Infra, and Product teams to ship improvements safely and at scale.
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Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences.
Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel.
We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships. We’re proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures, along with many others.
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