# Sr. Software Engineer – Robot Applications & Voice AI

AI That Moves the World. Careers That Move You Forward. At Cerence AI, you’ll help transform advanced AI into trusted, real-world solutions that make complex technology - think vehicles, robots, smart manufacturing, and emerging intelligent devices - more natural, reliable, and useful. Building on decades of innovation and global deployment in automotive, we are extending our expertise into new products, markets, and intelligent systems. As part of our global team, you’ll work alongside leading innovators, researchers, engineers, and business leaders to solve meaningful challenges and turn breakthrough ideas into technology people use every day. You’ll have the opportunity to make a visible impact, help shape Cerence AI’s next chapter, and move your own career forward. -------------------------------------------------------------- Sr. Software Engineer - Robot Applications & Voice AI Location : California Bay area Humanoid robots become truly useful when they understand human intent and convert it into meaningful action. At Cerence, we are building the cognitive and application layer that combines Voice AI, Agentic AI, multimodal reasoning, and robotic capabilities into intuitive h

- **Id**: 462297
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cerence-principal-software-engineer-robot-applications-voice-ai>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-28T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T13:51:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 104
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8732
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Hybrid work, Insurance coverage
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Conversational AI, Speech & Audio AI, Automotive Software

## Company

- **Id**: 178070
- **Name**: Cerence
- **Domain**: cerence.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cerence>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 62
- **Open postings**: 27
- **Ghost share**: 0.63
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 35
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 107000
- **Max**: 172000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 172000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **BehaviorTree.CPP** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Physical AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Text-to-Speech** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Deepgram** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **ElevenLabs** — Optional: yes
- **Embodied AI** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **ROS2** — Optional: yes
- **Whisper** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 104

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-06T11:26:14Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-11T07:55:40Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-06T20:52:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.3
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 104
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, ghost, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 172000
- **Is top pay**: no

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