Cekura is a YC‑backed startup building infrastructure to test, monitor, debug, and improve conversational AI agents across voice, chat, SMS, phone, and web. The platform automates large-scale, realistic conversational simulations, generates datasets and dynamic persona workflows, and provides real‑time monitoring, detailed logs, and alerting to catch failures like latency, hallucinations, tool‑call errors and regression. Founded by engineers with research and trading backgrounds, the company emphasizes reliability for production voice agents, faster time‑to‑market, and reducing costly deployment errors; it’s an early team (~15 people) based in San Francisco (YC F24).
The open role is a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in San Francisco, offering $100K-$180K and meaningful equity, focused on working directly with technical customers to onboard them, create continuous testing/monitoring/improvement loops, and translate customer insights into product roadmap and RFCs. The job requires ~2+ years in a technical dev‑tool, infra, SaaS, or AI role, comfort with APIs/webhooks, basic SQL and Python or JavaScript, log debugging, and strong written/verbal communication. Responsibilities include automating product usage insights, establishing FDE playbooks and processes, and driving product direction. Preferred background includes early FDE experience, familiarity with LLMs/voice AI and tools like Twilio/WebRTC, and founder experience; the role requires in‑person work in SF.
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