About The Role: 

Are you ready to help build the future of Cresta’s Technical Teams? Do you love shaping and building Talent Acquisition practices while achieving ambitious hiring goals? Cresta is hiring a Global Full Stack Technical Recruiter to help us attract, engage, and inspire future members of Cresta’s team. This role will focus heavily on building our Engineering pipeline to drive Cresta’s product roadmap and future innovation. You will drive the full life-cycle recruiting process while collaborating with the People team and hiring teams to build and improve our Talent Acquisition foundational practices and systems. You’ll work cross-functionally to build a diverse team of talented, driven people who accomplish amazing things together.

This role is based in the greater Toronto, Canada region and is a hybrid arrangement.  We are globally distributed and you must be willing to flex across multiple timezones partnering with hiring teams across Canada, California, Germany, Romania and Australia.

Responsibilities: 

• Drive global recruiting process for engineering and technical talent, inclusive of campus hiring up through highly experienced engineers
• Own the full cycle recruiting operation, including job promotion, sourcing, outreach, interview operations, and closing
• Deliver innovative recruitment strategies to attract diverse talent across geos
• Partner and cultivate strong relationships with key stakeholders, including the executive team and direct hiring managers
• Connect with hiring teams to understand talent profiles, share insights on the talent/market landscape, and inform sourcing strategies 
• Monitor and maintain the health of our pipelines, and share timely updates with internal stakeholders
• Ensure an exceptional candidate experience through effective communication and follow-up
• Achieve hiring goals within desired timeframes while maintaining high-quality outcomes 
• Continuously identify the opportunities to improve the end-to-end hiring process and execute the improvements with teams and within the system
• Develop and manage engineering event strategy to increase brand awareness and talent pipeline
• Maintain ATS database hygiene, including inbound application review, and provide regular pipeline updates
• Utilize our internal systems to deliver reporting and insights into recruitment metrics, pipeline health, and improve performance

Qualifications we value:

• 5+ years of experience managing full-lifecycle recruitment across various technical roles and experience levels
• Experience in hiring an elite team with a very high bar, and experience in negotiating and closing deals 
• Have a strong presence in the local tech talent community and bring talent insights related to the competitive landscape forward
• Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment with the ability to prioritize multiple stakeholders while delivering against ambitious hiring goals
• Expertise in building partnerships with hiring managers and taking on a talent advisor role with the ability to influence decisions and outcomes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with stakeholders and all levels of management
• Optimist and resourceful problem solver, with an ability to adjust strategy and actions in a fast-moving business
• You seek to understand and improve the efficacy of your work and talent processes by analyzing data and identifying and deploying improvements
• Experience using/managing ATS workflows and being vigilant about keeping a clean database.  Experience with Greenhouse is a bonus!
• Bachelor's degree and or equivalent years of experience

Perks & Benefits:

• We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees 
• PTO: 3 weeks in Canada 

Conclusion: 

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the Role: 

Cresta’s AI Agent team is building enterprise-grade AI Agents that can operate inside real-world contact center environments. A critical part of that mission is enabling our AI Agents to seamlessly integrate with customers’ CCaaS platforms (Contact Center as a Service), including voice and digital channels — and to smoothly transition conversations between AI and human agents when needed.

This team is focused on building the backend systems that allow our AI Agents to:

• Integrate deeply with leading CCaaS platforms
• Participate in live customer conversations across voice and chat
• Maintain full conversation state and context
• Perform real-time actions within the CCaaS ecosystem
• Seamlessly hand off conversations to human agents — without losing context, history, or workflow state
• Support human agents with AI assistance after transfer

We are looking for strong backend engineers who want to work at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time communication, enterprise integrations, and AI Agent orchestration.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will lead the architecture and technical direction of Cresta’s AI Agent integration platform. You will define how our AI Agents connect to, operate within, and scale across complex enterprise ecosystems.

Why This Role Is Unique: 

• AI + Real-Time Systems: Work on infrastructure that enables AI Agents to participate in live conversations at scale.
• Enterprise-Grade Integrations: Design robust integrations with major CCaaS platforms and customer systems.
• Human-AI Collaboration: Build the systems that make AI-to-human handoff seamless, contextual, and reliable.
• High-Impact Engineering: This is a highly visible, high-impact role shaping the backbone of how AI Agents operate in mission-critical customer environments.

If you’re a strong backend engineer who wants to apply your expertise to real-world AI systems operating inside complex enterprise ecosystems, this role offers that opportunity.

Responsibilities: 

• Lead the architecture and evolution of Cresta’s AI Agent integration framework across CCaaS platforms.
• Design scalable, extensible backend systems that manage real-time conversation state, session lifecycle, and context propagation.
• Establish architectural patterns for AI-to-human handoff that ensure durability, reliability, and seamless customer experience.
• Define integration strategies for voice, chat, messaging, routing, and agent desktop APIs across enterprise platforms.
• Drive system design for high availability, low latency, and fault tolerance in real-time environments.
• Set standards for observability, monitoring, incident response, and operational excellence.
• Partner closely with ML engineers to operationalize AI Agent capabilities into production-grade systems.
• Influence technical roadmap and prioritization in collaboration with engineering leadership.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the bar for backend engineering excellence across the organization.
• Lead complex cross-team technical initiatives from design through production rollout.

Qualifications We Value: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of experience building scalable backend systems in production environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture for large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in API design (REST, gRPC) and service-oriented architectures.
• Strong understanding of real-time communication systems and low-latency system design.
• Experience designing integrations with third-party enterprise platforms and APIs.
• Proven track record of driving technical direction across teams.
• Experience with containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong expertise in reliability engineering, observability, and enterprise-grade security.
• Experience with CCaaS platforms, contact center systems, or real-time communications is highly valued.
• Familiarity with AI Agents, LLM-based systems, or AI orchestration platforms is a strong plus.

Perks & Benefits:

• We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees 
• PTO: 3 weeks in Canada 

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai

About the role:

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy Cresta’s AI Agent solutions and proprietary models.
• Focus on practical AI challenges such as improving reasoning, planning capabilities, and evaluation in real-world scenarios.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including front-end and back-end software engineers to integrate AI Agents into Cresta’s customer solutions.
• Lead initiatives to scale AI systems for production environments, ensuring performance and reliability across use cases.
• Contribute to solving cutting-edge problems in AI and help define the future roadmap for Cresta’s AI Agents.
• Innovate and research ways to improve security, cost-efficiency, and reliability of AI systems.

Qualifications We Value:

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the role:

Machine Learning Engineers at Cresta work across several high-impact AI initiatives. Final team placement is determined based on experience, strengths, and business needs.

Current focus areas include:

• Agentic Assist: Lead and build next-generation agentic AI systems that augment contact center agents in real time. This track requires strong pre-LLM ML foundations, deep expertise in LLMs and modern prompting techniques, a rapid prototyping mindset, and a proven ability to translate cutting-edge research into scalable, production-grade systems.
• Agent & System Quality: Design evaluation frameworks and improve the reliability, robustness, and performance of LLM-powered agents. This includes diagnosing and mitigating failure modes such as hallucinations, retrieval errors, tool misuse, context drift, prompt brittleness, and multi-step reasoning breakdowns, while defining measurable quality metrics (e.g., accuracy, faithfulness, task completion, latency, and cost) for complex, non-deterministic systems.
• Insights: Architect and scale LLM and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines that ground models in enterprise data. This track focuses on building high-performance ML systems that process complex data, extract structured insights, and deliver real-time, actionable intelligence at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of Cresta’s next-generation AI Agents and Agentic Assist systems, defining system architecture and core modeling approaches.
• Architect intelligent, multi-step agent workflows that combine real-time guidance, knowledge retrieval, reasoning, summarization, and automated actions into cohesive production systems.
• Design, deploy, and optimize LLM-powered systems, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, and domain-adapted models.
• Improve reasoning, planning, and tool-use capabilities in real-world AI applications.
• Develop evaluation strategies for complex, non-deterministic systems, including offline benchmarking, online experimentation, and LLM-as-a-judge methodologies.
• Diagnose and mitigate real-world failure modes such as hallucinations, retrieval errors, tool misuse, prompt brittleness, and multi-step reasoning breakdowns.
• Define and measure quality metrics (e.g., accuracy, faithfulness, task completion, latency, cost, robustness) to improve system reliability and performance.
• Optimize AI systems for scalability, latency, security, and cost efficiency in production environments.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, frontend, and backend teams to integrate AI capabilities seamlessly into Cresta’s platform.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to technical strategy, and help shape the roadmap for Cresta’s AI systems.

Qualifications We Value:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field; Master’s or Ph.D. preferred.
• 5–8+ years of industry experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production, including significant experience working with LLMs.
• Strong expertise in NLP, Generative AI, transformer architectures, embeddings, and retrieval systems.
• Proven experience designing and deploying Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems in enterprise environments.
• Experience building and evaluating complex agentic or multi-step LLM workflows.
• Strong knowledge of modern ML frameworks and tools (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face) and distributed/cloud-based infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize real-time ML systems for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Strong technical leadership skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional decisions and raise the engineering bar.

Perks & Benefits:

• We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees 
• PTO: 3 weeks in Canada 

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

This posting will be used to fill a newly-created role.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the role

• Build real-time AI agent infrastructure: Design and operate the stateful, low-latency runtime that powers voice and chat AI agents — from LLM streaming and conversation state management to graceful recovery and multi-channel support.
• Solve distributed systems problems: Own session management across scaled-out workers — including affinity, checkpointing, crash recovery, and consistency under concurrent access.
• Build a function execution platform: Own a serverless-style runtime where customers deploy custom logic — build orchestration, container lifecycle, autoscaling, and versioned rollouts.
• Own developer experience and test infrastructure: Build CLI tools, local development environments, and test execution frameworks that let engineers iterate quickly and ship with confidence.
• Raise the bar on production quality: Drive observability, incident response, and engineering best practices across the team.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on infrastructure, platform, or systems work.
• Strong Python and Go — both are core to this role, not one primary and one secondary.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems: consistency, fault tolerance, state management, concurrency.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience building developer-facing tooling — CLIs, SDKs, local dev environments, or internal platforms.
• Strong communicator who can drive technical decisions, write clear design docs, and mentor others.
• High bar for code quality — thorough testing, thoughtful code review, and sustainable engineering practices.
• Comfort operating what you build — on-call, incident response, and production ownership.
• AI-native workflow — you actively use LLMs and AI-assisted tools in your daily development, and can leverage them to move faster and tackle problems that would otherwise be impractical.

• Experience with real-time voice or streaming media systems.
• Hands-on with LLM integration — streaming inference, prompt orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation.
• Experience building serverless or function-as-a-service platforms.
• Workflow engines (Temporal, Argo, Airflow) for durable, long-running processes.
• Experience in conversational AI or speech domains.
• Infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows.

Perks & Benefits:

• We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees 
• PTO: 3 weeks in Canada 

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the role:

Cresta’s AI Agent team is building enterprise-grade AI Agents that can operate inside real-world contact center environments. A critical part of that mission is enabling our AI Agents to seamlessly integrate with customers’ CCaaS platforms (Contact Center as a Service), including voice and digital channels — and to smoothly transition conversations between AI and human agents when needed.

This role is focused on building the backend systems that allow our AI Agents to:

• Integrate deeply with leading CCaaS platforms
• Participate in live customer conversations across voice and chat
• Maintain full conversation state and context
• Perform real-time actions within the CCaaS ecosystem
• Seamlessly hand off conversations to human agents — without losing context, history, or workflow state
• Support human agents with AI assistance after transfer

We are looking for strong backend engineers who want to work at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time communication, enterprise integrations, and AI Agent orchestration.

This is not a pure research role — it is about building production-grade infrastructure that enables AI Agents to operate reliably in mission-critical customer environments.

Why This Role Is Unique: 

• AI + Real-Time Systems: Work on infrastructure that enables AI Agents to participate in live conversations at scale.
• Enterprise-Grade Integrations: Design robust integrations with major CCaaS platforms and customer systems.
• Human-AI Collaboration: Build the systems that make AI-to-human handoff seamless, contextual, and reliable.
• High-Impact Engineering: Your work directly determines how smoothly AI Agents operate in production environments.

If you’re a strong backend engineer who wants to apply your expertise to real-world AI systems operating inside complex enterprise ecosystems, this role offers that opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable backend services that integrate Cresta’s AI Agents with customers’ CCaaS platforms.
• Architect systems that manage real-time conversation state, context propagation, and session lifecycle.
• Implement seamless AI-to-human handoff mechanisms, ensuring full context transfer and minimal disruption to the customer experience.
• Develop secure and reliable integrations with CCaaS APIs (voice, chat, messaging, routing, agent desktop, etc.).
• Collaborate closely with ML engineers and AI researchers to operationalize AI Agent capabilities in live environments.
• Ensure high availability, low latency, and strong observability for real-time conversation systems.
• Implement authentication, authorization, compliance, and enterprise security best practices across integrations.
• Drive improvements in reliability, performance, and scalability in production environments handling high interaction volumes

Qualifications We Value:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience building scalable backend systems in production environments.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining robust APIs (REST, gRPC).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and real-time communication architectures.
• Experience integrating with third-party enterprise platforms and APIs.
• Experience working with CCaaS platforms or contact center systems is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with AI Agents, Virtual Agents, or LLM-based systems is a plus.
• Experience with containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong understanding of system reliability, observability, and security in enterprise environments.

Perks & Benefits:

• We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees 
• PTO: 3 weeks in Canada 

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the role:

At Cresta, the AI Agent team is on a mission to create state-of-the-art AI Agents that solve practical problems for our customers. We are focused on leveraging the latest technologies in Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI Agent systems, while ensuring that the solutions we develop are cost-effective, secure, and reliable. This role will involve hands-on work on cutting-edge projects, requiring innovative and passionate software engineers who can bring research into practical, scalable applications.

As a Software Engineer, your goal will be to ensure that our AI Agents are backed by the most reliable and scalable server solutions. This includes designing and maintaining the server architecture that handles real-world, high-volume interactions and ensures high availability and performance. While we’re focused on server optimization and data management rather than pure research, you’ll be working with some of the most advanced technologies in the cloud and server space.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI at Cresta by solving complex problems and bringing breakthrough AI advancements into production environments.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and robust backend architectures for Cresta’s AI Agent solutions and proprietary models.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including frontend engineers, machine learning engineers to ensure seamless integration of AI Agents into Cresta’s customer solutions.
• Lead initiatives to enhance system scalability and reliability in production environments, focusing on backend services that support AI functionalities.
• Drive efforts to optimize server response times, process large volumes of data efficiently, and maintain high system availability.
• Innovate and implement security measures, cost-reduction strategies, and performance improvements in backend systems supporting AI Agents.

Qualifications We Value:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in backend system architecture, cloud services, or related technology fields.
• Knowledge in designing and maintaining clear and robust APIs with a strong understanding of protocols including gRPC, REST.
• Experience in high-performance database schema design and query optimization, including knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in containerized application deployment using Kubernetes and Docker in microservices architectures.
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, with a strong understanding of cloud security and compliance standards.
• Bonus: experience working with Virtual Agent or AI Agent systems.

Perks & Benefits:

• We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees 
• PTO: 3 weeks in Canada 

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

This posting will be used to fill a newly-created role.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai

Responsibilities:

• Developer Toolchain. Partner with engineers to build dev tools that empower developer workflows and deployment infrastructure.
• Ensure reliability of multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters and pipelines.
• Metrics, logging, analytics, and alerting for performance and security across all endpoints and applications.
• Infrastructure-as-code deployment tooling and supporting services on multiple cloud providers.
• Automate operations and engineering. Focus on automation so we can spend energy where it matters.
• Building machine learning infrastructure that enables AI teams to train, test, and deploy on large-scale datasets.

What we are looking for:

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the role:

The QM & Coaching Team at Cresta is vital for our post-call intelligence products. Our core mission is to utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) and advanced AI techniques to transform conversations into actionable intelligence, streamlining the process of agent performance review and coaching. We build systems that deeply analyze agent behaviors, delivering structured insights into their performance and pinpointing critical areas for improvement. Through AI-powered exploration and interactive workflows, our work empowers organizations to leverage data-driven decisions and enhance the overall customer experience.

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you’ll play a key role in building and scaling the no-code platform that powers Cresta’s processing capabilities. This platform empowers non-technical users to configure conversation workflows, apply automation without writing code. You will work across the stack—from building intuitive UIs to robust backend services—enabling customers to unlock value from conversations quickly and flexibly.

You’ll partner with designers, product managers and AI/ML teams to turn complex requirements into delightful and performant product experiences. You’ll also help shape the future of our no-code architecture, ensuring it scales with our product and customer base.

Responsibilities: 

• Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end features for Cresta’s no-code processing platform.
• Build intuitive UI components and visual editors for configuring conversation logic and workflows.
• Architect and implement backend services and APIs to power a dynamic no-code interface.
• Work closely with ML engineers to expose conversation intelligence in an accessible and configurable way.
• Develop data models and storage layers using Postgres, ClickHouse, and Elasticsearch.
• Identify areas for performance improvements and scalability in both frontend and backend systems.
• Ensure reliability, security, and maintainability across the full technology stack.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and continuous integration processes.

Qualifications: 

• Proven experience as a Senior Fullstack Engineer, with strong frontend and backend contributions to no-code or low-code platforms.
• Deep understanding of modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, etc.) and design patterns for building complex UIs.
• Backend expertise in Python, Go, or similar languages; experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
• Strong foundation in database systems and data modeling; hands-on experience with Postgres, ClickHouse, or Elasticsearch is a plus.
• Experience building platforms or tools for non-technical users, especially in AI/ML, automation, or workflow spaces.
• Familiarity with managing state, execution logic, or visual programming paradigms is a bonus.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills—able to work effectively across product, design, and engineering teams.
• Passion for building systems that simplify complex problems and empower users.

Perks & Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive and people-first benefits package to support you at work and in life:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with plans to fit you and your family
• Flexible PTO to take the time you need, when you need it
• Paid parental leave for all new parents welcoming a new child
• Retirement savings plan to help you plan for the future
• Remote work setup budget to help you create a productive home office
• Monthly wellness and communication stipend to keep you connected and balanced
• In-office meal program and commuter benefits provided for onsite employees

Compensation at Cresta: 

Cresta’s approach to compensation is simple: recognize impact, reward excellence, and invest in our people. We offer competitive, location-based pay that reflects the market and what each individual brings to the table.

The posted base salary range represents what we expect to pay for this role in a given location. Final offers are shaped by factors like experience, skills, education, and geography. In addition to base pay, total compensation includes equity and a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family.

OTE Range: $205,000–$270,000 + Offers Equity

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai 

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the role:

At Cresta, shipping AI is only half the story. Deploying it successfully is where the real impact happens.

As Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, you'll lead the team that turns cutting-edge AI into real-world customer success. You'll build, mentor, and scale a world-class team of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) who work directly with customers to deliver AI agents that solve practical business problems and drive measurable outcomes.

This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who loves building teams, refining processes, and driving product excellence through deep customer engagement. You'll be at the intersection of engineering, product, and go-to-market — ensuring that Cresta delivers exceptional value at scale.

Travel Expectations: 10-25% travel for customer visits, team offsites, and company events

This role is perfect for someone who:

• Has been in the trenches as an FDE or similar customer-facing engineering role and wants to scale that impact through leadership
• Thrives on building high-performing teams and developing talent
• Loves turning customer insights into product improvements
• Gets energized by complex deployments, ambiguous problems, and fast-paced environments
• Believes that engineering excellence and customer obsession go hand-in-hand

Why You'll Love This Role: 

• High impact, high visibility: You'll own one of the most strategic functions at Cresta — the team that turns AI into customer success
• Build something new: FDE at Cresta is still being defined. You'll shape the function, the culture, and the playbook
• Work with cutting-edge AI: You'll be hands-on with state-of-the-art AI agents, LLMs, and enterprise deployments at scale
• Develop world-class talent: You'll recruit and mentor some of the best engineers in the industry
• Influence product strategy: Your insights will directly shape what Cresta builds and how we win in enterprise
• Collaborate with the best: You'll work alongside world-class teams across product, engineering, and go-to-market
• Move fast, see impact: This isn't a slow-moving enterprise role. You'll ship fast, iterate, and see your work drive measurable customer outcomes

What You'll Do :

Build and Scale the FDE Team

• Recruit top talent: Own hiring strategy and execution for FDEs, building a diverse team of engineers who blend technical excellence with customer empathy
• Develop your team: Mentor FDEs through hands-on coaching, career development, and technical guidance
• Define the role: Evolve the FDE career ladder, competencies, and growth paths as the function matures
• Foster culture: Build a team culture grounded in ownership, customer-first mentality, and continuous learning

Refine Processes and Drive Operational Excellence

• Optimize the customer lifecycle: Design and refine how FDEs engage across sales, implementation, and long-tail support
• Scale what works: Identify patterns in successful deployments and turn them into repeatable processes
• Balance speed and quality: Establish frameworks for scoping, prioritization, and delivery that enable FDEs to move fast without sacrificing quality
• Measure what matters: Define team metrics and KPIs tied to customer outcomes, deployment velocity, and product adoption

Drive Product Improvements

• Be the voice of the customer: Synthesize customer feedback, pain points, and feature requests to inform product roadmap priorities
• Close the feedback loop: Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to advocate for improvements that unlock enterprise value
• Build vs. buy vs. hack: Guide FDEs in making smart trade-offs between quick fixes, generalizable features, and platform investments
• Champion generalization: Push the team to build scalable solutions, not one-off customizations, while still delivering customer value quickly

Lead Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Product: Work with PMs to translate customer insights into product strategy and roadmap decisions
• Align with Engineering: Collaborate with core engineering teams to ensure FDE-built features integrate seamlessly into the platform
• Enable Go-to-Market: Partner with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success to scope opportunities, manage expectations, and deliver successful outcomes
• Influence leadership: Present customer insights, deployment learnings, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership

Stay Hands-On (When Needed)

• Jump into the fire: Roll up your sleeves to support critical deployments, troubleshoot complex issues, or unblock your team
• Stay technical: Maintain credibility by staying close to the codebase, understanding AI agent architecture, and contributing when it matters most
• Lead by example: Model the behaviors you want to see — customer empathy, technical depth, ownership, and urgency

What We're Looking For: 

• Engineering management experience: At least 2 years managing, mentoring, and growing engineering teams
• Customer-facing engineering background: Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Implementation Engineer, or similar role working directly with customers
• Technical depth: Strong software engineering fundamentals (coding, system design, APIs, databases) — you've built production systems and can earn the respect of senior engineers
• AI/LLM familiarity: Hands-on experience with AI agents, LLMs, prompt engineering, or ML deployments in production
• Hiring and talent development: Proven track record of recruiting, onboarding, and developing high-performing engineers
• Cross-functional leadership: Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success teams
• Bias toward action: You ship fast, iterate, and believe that perfect is the enemy of good
• Customer empathy: Deep understanding of enterprise customer needs and the ability to translate technical concepts into business value
• Startup or scale-up experience: You've been in fast-paced, high-growth environments where you wore multiple hats
• Enterprise B2B background: Experience with complex, multi-stakeholder deployments and long sales cycles
• Product mindset: You think like a product manager — understanding market needs, prioritization, and trade-offs
• Process design: You've built processes from scratch and iterated on them based on what works
• Founder or entrepreneurial experience: You've started something, built something from zero, or operated with extreme ownership

Perks & Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive and people-first benefits package to support you at work and in life:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with plans to fit you and your family
• Flexible PTO to take the time you need, when you need it
• Paid parental leave for all new parents welcoming a new child
• Retirement savings plan to help you plan for the future
• Remote work setup budget to help you create a productive home office
• Monthly wellness and communication stipend to keep you connected and balanced
• In-office meal program and commuter benefits provided for onsite employees

Compensation at Cresta: 

Cresta’s approach to compensation is simple: recognize impact, reward excellence, and invest in our people. We offer competitive, location-based pay that reflects the market and what each individual brings to the table.

The posted base salary range represents what we expect to pay for this role in a given location. Final offers are shaped by factors like experience, skills, education, and geography. In addition to base pay, total compensation includes equity and a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family.

Base Salary Range: $205,000–$280,000 + Annual Bonus & Offers Equity

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai 

Responsibilities:

• Play a substantial role in the platform frontend engineering team.
• Work with Cresta product and engineering teams, build and continuously improve the Cresta platform and new product requirements.
• Stay closely with customers and their requirements, analyze the technical tradeoffs, own the customer facing deliverables.
• Develop high quality, well designed, reusable, and well-tested system components, and contribute to the overall system designs.
• Constantly identifies product improvement opportunities and generates product improvement ideas.
• Demonstrate the engineering best practices in deliverables and daily work. Uphold others to the same high standards.
• Technical ownership in a substantial part of the Cresta product and platform.
• Contribute to building the best-in-class company in addition to building the best-in-class product.

What we are looking for:

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the role:

At Cresta, the AI Agent team is on a mission to create state-of-the-art AI Agents that solve practical problems for our customers. We are focused on leveraging the latest technologies in Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI Agent systems, while ensuring that the solutions we develop are cost-effective, secure, and reliable. 

As an AI Agent Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of deploying AI agents that address real-world challenges. In this role, you will work closely with customers as well as our software and machine learning engineers, ensuring high-impact AI Agent deployments and contributing to the continuous improvement of our core AI platform. You’ll develop intelligent AI agents, integrate them seamlessly with external systems and offer hands-on technical expertise to ensure successful deployments.. This position requires strong engineering skills, adaptability, and customer engagement. If you are self-driven, analytical, and eager to leverage AI in practical applications, this role is for you.

What You'll Do :

• AI Agent Development: Develop, configure, deploy, and optimize AI agents using Cresta’s AI platform and tools.
• System Integration: Build AI agent integrations with external systems (APIs, databases, CRMs, etc.) to ensure seamless workflow integration.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize AI agent performance (e.g. fine-tune prompts and configurations) and troubleshoot issues in complex enterprise environments.
• Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to gather technical requirements and translate business needs into AI Agent solutions.
• Demos & Iteration: Conduct interactive demos and present compelling proof-of-concepts to prospective customers, proactively gather feedback, and iteratively refine solutions to meet objectives.
• Project Coordination: Define project milestones, create implementation plans, and coordinate execution with internal teams to ensure on-time delivery. Provide a tight feedback loop to our product and engineering teams — identifying gaps, building custom tooling, and influencing the roadmap through real-world deployment learnings.
• Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with PMs to define agent goals, iterate rapidly based on customer feedback, and shape product capabilities that maximize customer ROI.
• Technical Guidance: Serve as a trusted technical advisor for the customer, guiding best practices for AI agent adoption and usage. Provide technical guidance on AI agent best practices, including architecture design, security considerations, and scalability planning.

What We're Looking For:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 3+ years of full-time working experience in software development/Consulting, AI/ML engineering, or Forward Deployed Engineering.
• Programming Skills: Proficiency in Python and Golang, with the ability to write clean, efficient code.
• AI/ML Knowledge: Familiarity with AI/ML concepts. Hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs), and prompt engineering techniques are strongly preferred.
• AI Agent Frameworks: Strong understanding of general AI agent frameworks, function calling, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Hands-on experience of building such a system is strongly preferred.
• Cloud & DevOps: Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and DevOps practices (CI/CD, containerization, monitoring).
• Integration Expertise: Hands-on experience with integrating systems via APIs, webhooks, and data pipelines.
• Communication: Excellent communication and project management skills.
• Analytical Approach: Ability to use data-driven decision-making, including A/B testing and performance monitoring, to refine solutions.
• Collaborative Builder: You thrive in cross-functional environments, working hand-in-hand with PMs and engineers to turn real customer problems into scalable AI solutions.

Perks & Benefits:

• We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees 
• PTO: 3 weeks in Canada 

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

This posting will be used to fill a newly-created role.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai

About the Role:

As a Forward Deployed Product Manager, AI Agent, you will create, deploy and optimize AI Agents that transform our customers’ businesses and delight their customers. This highly cross-functional and customer-facing role blends product thinking, a nose for value, and project leadership with senior customer executives. At the end of the day, you own each AI Agent and the outcomes they drive for our customers, and you take that personally. You are a creative, pragmatic problem solver who thrives in fast-paced environments, rolls up your sleeves to build, and excels at turning ambiguity into execution.

In this role, you’ll partner with Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) who will support the build, integrations and optimization to make the  AI Agent product successful. You’ll also work closely with product and engineering, providing a tight feedback loop and custom tooling that will shape the future of our platform. 

What You’ll Do:

• Own AI Agent outcomes for our customers — defining and delivering on the metrics that move the needle. This includes finding additional automation opportunities that can provide even more value! To do this, you’ll…
• Own the deployment lifecycle for AI Agents — from pre-sale scoping and kickoff to launch and post-go-live optimization
• Design, build, test and iterate on AI agents in partnership with FDEs using Cresta’s internal tools and the latest technologies to deliver the highest customer ROI
• Lead customer relationships and act as the primary point of contact for AI Agent. Help prospects and customers move faster to ensure we can deliver quickly and effectively.
• Facilitate workshops and design sessions with customer stakeholders to align on agent use cases, workflows, and success criteria while gathering feedback to improve the AI agent platform
• Work closely with FDEs to ensure smooth implementation, build new capabilities as needed and provide feedback and improvements to our broader platform
• Improve our playbooks for agent development and customer deployment

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years of experience in Technology Consulting, Implementations, Product, or Customer Success roles, ideally working closely with AI or LLM first products
• Hands-on work style – curiosity with a bias for action. You anticipate needs and bottlenecks and deliver with urgency and care.
• Experience leading complex deployments, owning customer relationships (including senior customer stakeholders), and working cross-functionally
• Strong technical understanding, systems thinking and exposure to building Agents (not necessarily conversational, personal projects count!)
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and learning quickly in a dynamic startup environment
• Passion for AI, automation, and shaping the future of customer experience

Bonus Points:

• Background in product management, conversation design or forward deployed engineering roles
• Experience in a startup or high-growth SaaS environment
• Familiarity with customer support and contact center operations

Perks & Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive and people-first benefits package to support you at work and in life:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with plans to fit you and your family
• Flexible PTO to take the time you need, when you need it
• Paid parental leave for all new parents welcoming a new child
• Retirement savings plan to help you plan for the future
• Remote work setup budget to help you create a productive home office
• Monthly wellness and communication stipend to keep you connected and balanced
• In-office meal program and commuter benefits provided for onsite employees

Compensation at Cresta 

Cresta’s approach to compensation is simple: recognize impact, reward excellence, and invest in our people. We offer competitive, location-based pay that reflects the market and what each individual brings to the table.

The posted base salary range represents what we expect to pay for this role in a given location. Final offers are shaped by factors like experience, skills, education, and geography. In addition to base pay, total compensation includes equity and a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family.

OTE Range: $170,000–$280,000  + Offers Equity

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the role:

The QM & Coaching Team at Cresta is vital for our post-call intelligence products. Our core mission is to utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) and advanced AI techniques to transform conversations into actionable intelligence, streamlining the process of agent performance review and coaching. We build systems that deeply analyze agent behaviors, delivering structured insights into their performance and pinpointing critical areas for improvement. Through AI-powered exploration and interactive workflows, our work empowers organizations to leverage data-driven decisions and enhance the overall customer experience.

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you’ll play a key role in building and scaling the no-code platform that powers Cresta’s processing capabilities. This platform empowers non-technical users to configure conversation workflows, apply automation without writing code. You will work across the stack—from building intuitive UIs to robust backend services—enabling customers to unlock value from conversations quickly and flexibly.

You’ll partner with designers, product managers and AI/ML teams to turn complex requirements into delightful and performant product experiences. You’ll also help shape the future of our no-code architecture, ensuring it scales with our product and customer base.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end features for Cresta’s no-code processing platform.
• Build intuitive UI components and visual editors for configuring conversation logic and workflows.
• Architect and implement backend services and APIs to power a dynamic no-code interface.
• Work closely with ML engineers to expose conversation intelligence in an accessible and configurable way.
• Develop data models and storage layers using Postgres, ClickHouse, and Elasticsearch.
• Identify areas for performance improvements and scalability in both frontend and backend systems.
• Ensure reliability, security, and maintainability across the full technology stack.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and continuous integration processes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Fullstack Engineer, with strong frontend and backend contributions to no-code or low-code platforms.
• Deep understanding of modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, etc.) and design patterns for building complex UIs.
• Backend expertise in Python, Go, or similar languages; experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
• Strong foundation in database systems and data modeling; hands-on experience with Postgres, ClickHouse, or Elasticsearch is a plus.
• Experience building platforms or tools for non-technical users, especially in AI/ML, automation, or workflow spaces.
• Familiarity with managing state, execution logic, or visual programming paradigms is a bonus.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills—able to work effectively across product, design, and engineering teams.
• Passion for building systems that simplify complex problems and empower users.

Perks & Benefits:

• We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees 
• PTO: 3 weeks in Canada 

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

This posting will be used to fill a newly-created role.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

We’ve assembled a world-class team of AI and ML experts, go-to-market leaders, and top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sequoia, and former AT&T CEO John Donovan. Our valued customers include brands like Intuit, Cox Communications, Hilton, and Carmax and we’ve been recognized by Forbes and Bain Consulting as one of the top private AI companies in the world.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the role:

The Platform Frontend team is focused on building and maintaining a robust platform that supports all frontend development. This team oversees key areas like architecture, design patterns, frameworks, libraries, UI components, development environments, tools, and deployment processes. They also ensure performance, security, and best practices are upheld. By organizing the frontend landscape into product-driven and engineering-driven dimensions, the Frontend Platform team promotes clear ownership, efficient collaboration, and the delivery of high-quality, inclusive frontend solutions that meet Cresta’s diverse business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Play a substantial role in the platform frontend engineering team.
• Work with Cresta product and engineering teams, build and continuously improve the Cresta platform and new product requirements.
• Stay closely with customers and their requirements, analyze the technical tradeoffs, own the customer facing deliverables.
• Develop high quality, well designed, reusable, and well-tested system components, and contribute to the overall system designs.
• Constantly identifies product improvement opportunities and generates product improvement ideas.
• Demonstrate the engineering best practices in deliverables and daily work. Uphold others to the same high standards.
• Technical ownership in a substantial part of the Cresta product and platform.
• Contribute to building the best-in-class company in addition to building the best-in-class product.
• Expand Cresta’s services beyond web and desktop applications to native and hybrid mobile applications.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Strong Computer Science fundamentals.
• 8+ years of experience in relevant domains.
• Very solid coding skills.
• Familiar with React or Angular. Have used at least one of them in large scale consumer-facing products.
• At least 2 years of experience with native mobile development (Swift for iOS or Kotlin/Java for Android) in large scale consumer-facing products.
• Experience with mobile frameworks such as React Native, Flutter or Ionic is a plus.
• Proficient in designing and maintaining clear frontend architecture.
• Experience as a technical lead of frontend stack supporting various product features.

Perks & Benefits:

• We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees 
• PTO: 3 weeks in Canada 

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

This posting will be used to fill a newly-created role.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

We’ve assembled a world-class team of AI and ML experts, go-to-market leaders, and top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sequoia, and former AT&T CEO John Donovan. Our valued customers include brands like Intuit, Cox Communications, Hilton, and Carmax and we’ve been recognized by Forbes and Bain Consulting as one of the top private AI companies in the world.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the role:

Cresta’s Core Platform underpins the company’s entire product portfolio. Our long term vision is to build a robust, reliable, secure, and extensible foundation that supports continued innovation, satisfies enterprise customer requirements, and keeps operational costs in check. One critical component for that are scalable authentication systems, tools, processes and frameworks based on industry standards and security best practices. Our authentication team will be responsible for building, maintaining and delivering these requirements. The authentication team will work closely with our security team and the different teams that depend on these utilities and frameworks to meet Cresta’s diverse authentication and security needs for internal workflows and external customer facing integrations.

Responsibilities:

• Play a substantial role in the platform frontend and authentication engineering team.
• Work with Cresta product and engineering teams, build and continuously improve the Cresta platform and new product requirements.
• Stay closely with customers and their requirements, analyze the technical tradeoffs, own the customer facing deliverables.
• Demonstrate the engineering best practices in deliverables and daily work. Uphold others to the same high standards.
• Technical ownership in a substantial part of the Cresta authentication stack.
• Contribute to building the best-in-class company in addition to building the best-in-class product.
• Full stack support for Cresta’s 1st party and 3rd party authentication systems (frontend and backend).
• The authentication team is responsible for building systems to authenticate users, service accounts, virtual agents, server workloads, cloud based authentication for external integrations, etc.
• Expanding Cresta’s BYOID (Bring Your Own Identity) repertoire.
• Securing sign-in (password authentication, multi-factor authentication, etc) and application access.
• Building customized, streamlined and frictionless customer-specific auto-login systems.
• Improving and migrating from legacy authentication systems to more modern industry-based, standardized and secure systems.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Strong Computer Science fundamentals.
• 8+ years of experience in relevant domains (Identity and Access Management).
• Very solid coding skills.
• Experience in various authentication protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML 2.0, FIDO 2.0, etc).
• Golang for backend services (gRPC, Protobuffers).
• Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Cloud based services (AWS), etc.
• Familiar with React or Angular. Have used at least one of them in large scale consumer-facing products.
• Proficient in designing and maintaining clear end-to-end authentication systems.
• Experience as a technical lead of full stack supporting various authentication and security product features.

Perks & Benefits:

• We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees 
• PTO: 3 weeks in Canada 

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

This posting will be used to fill a newly-created role.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai