Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- New York
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
Own telephony integration projects: Lead the technical execution of VoIP/SIP connectivity for enterprise customers and partners (PoCs through production).
Design reliable call paths: Architect integrations via SIP trunking providers, direct trunks, or enterprise telephony infrastructure—balancing latency, reliability, and security constraints.
Debug complex issues end-to-end: Troubleshoot signaling and media problems (e.g., routing, codecs, DTMF, call transfers, failover), using logs and network traces to find root cause fast.
Navigate enterprise constraints: Propose connectivity options when customers have strict firewall policies, limited exposed ports, or regulatory/security requirements.
Partner deeply with customer engineers: Work directly with telecom, network, and platform teams to align architectures, test plans, and operational procedures.
Support partner enablement: Help telephony partners integrate with Parloa, resolve escalations, and improve repeatability through patterns, tooling, and documentation.
Engineer pragmatic solutions: Build small utilities, scripts, or lightweight services when needed to validate assumptio
Responsibilities
As a Forward Deployed Engineer, VoIP your mission is to make Parloa work flawlessly in the real world of enterprise telephony. You are the deep VoIP/SIP expert embedded in our most critical customer integrations—owning the end-to-end technical path from "a phone rings" to "the bot answers," across carriers, SIP trunks, SBCs, networks, and enterprise constraints.
You'll operate where product, infrastructure, and customer reality meet: diagnosing tricky call flows, designing robust connectivity patterns, unblocking go-lives under pressure, and shaping how Parloa integrates with telephony ecosystems—both for customers and partners.
- Role:
- Forward Deployed Engineer VoIP
Company profile
Parloa
parloa.comParloa is the company behind an AI agent management platform built for enterprise customer service and contact centers. Its AI agents handle millions of customer conversations in any language for tasks such as scheduling, refunds and recommendations, aiming to eliminate wait times and improve service at scale. Founded by Malte Kosub and Stefan Ostwald, Parloa works with global brands including Allianz, Booking.com and IKEA and employs more than 400 people across offices in New York, Berlin and Munich. Its investors include General Catalyst, Durable Capital, Altimeter, EQT Ventures and Mosaic Ventures.
- Founders
- Malte Kosub, Stefan Ostwald
- Key Investors
- General Catalyst, Durable Capital, Altimeter, EQT Ventures, Mosaic Ventures