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title: 'AI Acceleration Engineer at Decagon'
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# AI Acceleration Engineer at Decagon

- **Company:** [Decagon](https://feeny.ai/companies/decagon)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $180k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/decagon/c68de30e-1293-48bd-8f8e-dbbbb7d204b9

## Job description

## About Decagon

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. We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values — Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle — shape how we work and grow as a team.

## About the Team

This role rolls up into the AI Acceleration team, within the broader Finance Org today - though our mandate reaches far beyond it. We're pushing to leverage AI across the entire organization, creating multiples of efficiency in how every function operates. We partner closely across Finance, Accounting, People, Legal, and Sales to develop solutions in a meaningful way. We execute and deliver at extremely fast velocity.

## About the Role

Decagon is growing fast, and we're looking for an AI Acceleration Engineer to build the systems the company runs on and make AI a practical part of how every team works. You'll extend the platform that already serves as our source of truth for contracts and customers, automate the billing, collections, and close work that still takes days of manual effort each month, and replace processes running on spreadsheets with systems people can trust. You'll also AI-pill the rest of the company, giving them the MCP servers, skills, agents, and artifacts to automate their own work. This isn't a role about evaluating tools and writing decks. It's a hands-on technical role: you'll own what you build and keep owning it, working directly with the people whose processes you're changing. Because this space moves every few weeks, you'll be the one deciding what's worth adopting and getting it into people's hands. If you see manual processes as problems to engineer away, and have the range to do it, this role was built for you.

In this role, you will

- Own projects end to end, from requirements gathering and solution design through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
- Build and maintain the web applications and integrations internal teams run on, from existing systems such as our internal contract and revenue platform to new tools you design and stand up from scratch.
- Work with stakeholders across Finance, Accounting, Legal, People, and Recruiting to surface new use cases and areas to automate, and determine whether each calls for a custom build, an AI vendor, or a hybrid approach.
- Take on major workstreams as they come up: billing, revenue recognition, usage data ingestion, and reconciliation across our internal data, the ERP, and Salesforce.
- Build the interfaces that let others work with our systems through AI, including MCP servers, skills, and agent-facing tooling, and enable power users across the business to handle the simpler automations themselves.
- Measure and communicate impact back to leadership: time saved, cost reduced, errors eliminated.

## Your background looks something like this

- You have 6+ years of hands-on experience building the internal tools, systems, and automations that business teams rely on — internal tooling, business systems, and/or revenue and finance operations.
- You have owned projects across the full lifecycle, from requirements gathering through deployment and ongoing maintenance.
- You're technical enough to build production-quality internal tools, but you're not looking for a product engineering role — the work here is solving business problems, and that's where you want to spend your time.
- You're a strong generalist who could go deep on billing one quarter and rebuild a recruiting workflow the next.
- You have sound instincts for how systems should be built — how data flows, where things break, and what it takes for someone else to maintain your work. Fundamentals matter more here than familiarity with any particular tool.
- You know when a workflow calls for an agentic/AI approach and when a deterministic pipeline is the better answer.
- You have hands-on experience with AI-native coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and have used them to ship production solutions. Coding experience is preferred: Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript; working with APIs; and deploying what you build.
- You build trust quickly with Finance, Accounting, Legal, and People, and can independently drive complex projects under ambiguity without needing formal authority to get things done.

Even better if you have

- You've led AI acceleration / transformation initiatives — you know the common failure modes and how to avoid them.
- You have a product mindset: you don't just build automations, you build things people actually adopt and love using.
- You have hands-on GCP experience — Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub — and have built custom MCP servers, not just used them.
- You've worked on billing or revenue systems, or been through an ERP implementation

## Compensation

$180K - $220K + Equity

## Benefits

We proudly offer the following benefits for our full-time employees:

- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
- Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
- Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)
- Parental Leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Monthly stipend to support your wellness, lifestyle, and work-life balance
- Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best
- Take what you need vacation policy (subject to local requirements; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave)

These benefits are described in more detail in Decagon’s policies, may vary by location, and can change at any time according to applicable compensation and benefits plans.

## About Decagon

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Decagon is an AI customer support platform that enables enterprises to deploy autonomous AI agents for concierge-level customer experiences across voice, chat, email, and other channels.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $481M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Jesse Zhang (CEO) and Ashwin Sreenivas (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered customer support software / Enterprise conversational AI
- **Target customers**: B2B, mid-market to enterprise (e.g., Avis Budget Group, Chime, Oura Health, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Hunter Douglas, Duolingo, Curology, Valon)
- **Mission or purpose**: "Build a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships."

## Products & Services
- **[Decagon AI Concierge Platform](https://decagon.ai/)**: Unified omnichannel AI agent handling chat, voice, and email — powered by natural-language Agent Operating Procedures (AOPs) for workflow definition and an analytics suite for continuous optimization.
- **[Decagon Voice AI](https://decagon.ai/product/voice)**: Fast, intelligent voice agents built for natural dialog, fully customizable to brand tone, claiming 50%+ deflection on voice and 70% chat+voice resolution.
- **[Decagon Chat](https://decagon.ai/product/chat)**: Flexible, personalized chat agent that executes complex workflows reliably, claiming 80% deflection rate and 32% cost reduction.
- **[Decagon Email](https://decagon.ai/product/email)**: Always-on, intuitive email agent that resolves issues quickly, reporting 1M+ revenue from fully AI-handled conversations and 3x CSAT increase.
- **[Duet Autopilot](https://decagon.ai/)**: Newer product tier (announced 2025) for autonomous, end-to-end handling of customer interactions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: ~$4.5B (Series B round led by Coatue Management and Index Ventures, tripling valuation in under six months as of late 2025/early 2026) [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-decagon-2026)
- **Total Funding**: USD $481,000,000 across 7 rounds [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decagon-ai)
  - Seed (Jun 2024): $5M led by a16z
  - Series B (Oct 2024): $65M led by Bain Capital Ventures
  - Venture Round (Nov 2025): undisclosed amount, 1 investor
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue Management, Index Ventures, Elad Gil [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-decagon-2026)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 311 employees (+325.3% YoY) as of mid-2026
  - 100+ enterprise customers
  - Over 60,000 LinkedIn followers (+274.8% yearly growth)
  - Active in 7 countries (US, UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Philippines, Nigeria)
  - 134 active job postings (+332.3% yearly growth)
  - Key talent sourced from Verkada, Scale AI, Bain & Company, Glean, Databricks, xAI, Salesforce, TikTok, Five9

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proven enterprise adoption**: Deployed at major brands (Chime, Avis, Oura, Duolingo) with highly publicized results — e.g., Oura reported 95% chat+voice resolution, Curology 80% deflection, and one customer saw "10x higher deflection at launch than anticipated" [decagon.ai](https://decagon.ai/)
- **Omnichannel by design**: Unified chat, voice, and email on a single intelligence layer — a rare end-to-end approach vs. point solutions for just chat or voice.
- **Natural-language AOPs**: Agent Operating Procedures in plain English, enabling non-engineers to define and iterate on agent workflows without engineering support — faster iteration and less vendor lock-in.
- **Elite investor syndicate**: Backed by the top enterprise AI investors (a16z, Accel, Coatue, Index, Bain Capital Ventures), signaling strong confidence and access to a broad network.
- **Founding team pedigree**: Founded by former executives/engineers from high-growth AI companies (Jesse Zhang and Ashwin Sreenivas have backgrounds from fast-scaling AI startups).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling enterprise sales**: Actively hiring Enterprise Account Executives, Implementation Managers, and Strategic Account Directors [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decagon-ai)
- **Deepening voice capabilities**: Staff Research Engineer and Senior Research Engineer for Voice + Speech roles signal heavy investment in voice AI quality and differentiation [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decagon-ai)
- **International expansion**: Established offices in London (UK), plus presence in Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, and Philippines — recruiting across all regions.
- **Product velocity**: Emphasis on rapid iteration and continuous improvement of agents; building out analytics suite (Decagon Insights) and Duet Autopilot for fully autonomous operation.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "Eng-Driven, Ship Fast, Equity, Product Impact" by employees. Values include: "Just get it done," "Invent what customers want," "Winner's mindset," "The Polymath Principle" (cross-functional collaboration) [decagon.ai/careers](https://decagon.ai/careers)
- **Compensation**: "We hire the best and treat them accordingly" — competitive compensation philosophy; Glassdoor rating: 3.9/5.0 (257 reviews), Compensation: 5.0/5.0 in Glassdoor-style internal review [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-decagon-2026)
- **Benefits**:
  - 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for dependents
  - 401k and FSA/commuter benefits
  - Flexible PTO + company-wide winter break shutdown
  - Free daily lunches, dinner, and snacks at HQ
  - Wellness programs and company events [decagon.ai/careers](https://decagon.ai/careers)
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: HQ in San Francisco (2261 Market Street); London office (50 York Way). Roles span remote, hybrid, and on-site options based on job postings.
- **Engineering culture**: 89 technical employees (21% of workforce), Staff/Senior Research Engineer roles for Voice + Speech; "Build, optimize, and scale AI agents" is core identity. Alumni go on to OpenAI, Datadog, Postman, Accel — strong talent pipeline.
- **Growth trajectory**: 134 open roles; 300+% headcount growth YoY; $4.5B valuation at 3 years old — extremely high-growth environment ideal for career acceleration.
- **Notable perk**: "We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions" — employees report high product impact and ownership.

## Sources
1. [decagon.ai](https://decagon.ai/)
2. [decagon.ai/careers](https://decagon.ai/careers)
3. [LinkedIn - Decagon](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decagon-ai)
4. [jobsbyculture.com - Working at Decagon 2026](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-decagon-2026)
5. [dealroom.co - Decagon profile](https://dealroom.co/companies/decagon/)

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