Decagon

AI Acceleration Engineer

Decagon
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San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own projects end to end from requirements gathering and solution design through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
  • Build and maintain internal web applications, business systems, and integrations.
  • Identify automation opportunities with Finance, Accounting, Legal, People, and Recruiting stakeholders and select custom, vendor, or hybrid solutions.
  • Develop billing, revenue recognition, usage data ingestion, and reconciliation workstreams across internal data, the ERP, and Salesforce.
  • Build MCP servers, skills, and agent-facing tooling so business teams can use AI and create simpler automations.
  • Measure and communicate time saved, costs reduced, and errors eliminated to leadership.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of hands-on experience building internal tools, systems, and automations for business teams, internal tooling, business systems, or revenue and finance operations.
  • Experience owning projects across the full lifecycle, from requirements gathering through deployment and ongoing maintenance.
  • Ability to build production-quality internal tools and solve business problems rather than focus on product engineering.
  • Strong generalist capabilities across areas such as billing, finance, recruiting workflows, and business operations.
  • Understanding of system design, data flows, failure modes, maintainability, and when to use agentic AI versus deterministic pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience using AI-native coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor to ship production solutions.
  • Coding experience with Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript, working with APIs, and deploying built solutions.
  • Ability to independently drive complex projects under ambiguity and build trust with Finance, Accounting, Legal, and People stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience leading AI acceleration or transformation initiatives, applying a product mindset, using GCP services including Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub, building custom MCP servers, and working with billing, revenue systems, or ERP implementations.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and families.
  • Life insurance and disability benefits.
  • Retirement plan, such as a 401K or pension.
  • Parental leave.
  • Fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot.
  • Monthly wellness, lifestyle, and work-life balance stipend.
  • Daily lunches and snacks in the office.
  • Take-what-you-need vacation policy; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave.
  • Full-time, in-office role; benefits may vary by location and can change under company policies.
Decagon

About Decagon

501-1,000 employees

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, Chime, Oura Health, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, 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.

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