Sr. AI Engineer

About Mursion

Mursion provides an award-winning upskilling platform trusted by top companies to measurably improve employees' interpersonal intelligence and build stronger organizations. Powered by multimodal AI and a unique practice-based approach, our real-world, interactive simulations deliver lasting results. Our solutions are grounded in behavioral science and psychology to build confidence and positive behaviors, and ultimately help reduce the costs of stress. Mursion’s product suite includes AI-powered simulations, human reinforcement assessment & coaching, and advanced analytics that lead to measurable skills acquisition.

Mursion is a well-funded Series B startup that is backed by future of work and Edtech investing veterans, like Leeds Illuminate and New Markets Venture Partners. Mursion is the largest simulation company, with more than 800K+ simulations to date and more than 200K users per year, with a growing global footprint. By 2026, we will be delivering 2 million simulations per year.

Who We Want : We seek talented people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, who are inspired by our mission to leverage virtual reality technology to reinvent professional learning, and who are motivated to help Mursion become the premier global platform for virtual simulation training for behavioral skills. We value empathy, curiosity, and constant improvement both in our internal operations and when working with partners and clients. Our employees are most successful when they employ strong collaboration skills, skilled communications, a problem-solving orientation, and demonstrate comfort in an evolving and fast-paced startup environment.

About the role

As a Senior AI Engineer for Real-Time Conversational Agents, you will play a crucial role in developing and deploying the real-time AI systems that power our conversational agents. You’ll work primarily with large language models (LLMs), automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and emerging speech-to-speech models, and you’ll use modern agent and real-time frameworks to ship low-latency, production-ready experiences.

We care deeply about model stability, latency, evaluation, and observability, and we’re constantly iterating to adopt new foundations and improve our routing and model-hopping strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain real-time speech-to-speech conversational agents, collaborating closely with product, design, and research teams.
• Ship low-latency, high-impact features that directly enhance user experience, with clear performance and product metrics.
• Design and optimize STS pipelines that integrate DeepGram, LiveKit / WebRTC, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, VAD, and Lambda-style architectures.

Drive core improvements to our AI infrastructure, including :

Monitor and maintain models and systems in production, with attention to :

Qualifications

Strong candidates will have

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