About the role
At Hey Telo, we’re building voice AI for the Home Service industry. We're growing fast and looking for world-class founding engineers to join our founding team to build and scale Hey Telo across Germany.
We’re looking for a Founding Voice Agent Engineer to shape the future of how people interact with home service providers. In this position, you will play a key role in shaping Hey Telo’s product, technology, and culture from the ground up.
If you are a builder who thrives with modern LLM techniques and voice agents - this is your opportunity to set the technical direction from day one.
What you will be working on
- Collaborate closely with our customers and help them solve their problems to make their work more enjoyable
- Optimize our voice agents for reliability, accuracy, and indistinguishability from talking to a real human
- Build scalable backend infrastructure to handle thousands of phone calls per day
What we're looking for
Technical Skills
- Expertise in modern LLM techniques (transformers, agents, RAG, fine-tuning, context engineering) and STT/TTS models
- Experience in software engineering (Python)
- Deployed voice agents using LiveKit, Vapi, Pipecat or anything similar to production
- You leverage AI tools that make you more productive (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.)
