Customer Engineer

Cresta unlocks the true potential of the customer experience, turning every conversation into a competitive advantage. Cresta’s unified AI platform combines conversational AI agents, real-time human agent augmentation, and comprehensive conversation intelligence to drive revenue and efficiency gains across every channel. The world’s leading companies, including United Airlines, Cox Communications, and Marriott, use Cresta to power world-class customer experiences every day.

Born from the Stanford AI Lab, Cresta has raised more than $270 million from the world’s leading investors, including a16z, Greylock, and Sequoia. Cresta’s leadership includes some of the leading minds in AI today. Our CEO, Ping Wu, founded and led Google's Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platforms before joining Cresta to build the future of AI-driven customer experiences.

Over the next few years, AI is going to redefine how people all over the world interact with businesses every day. Come build that future at Cresta.

About The Role:

As a Customer Engineer at Cresta, you'll play a key role in delivering our cutting-edge AI solutions to enterprise contact centers. You'll leverage your expertise in CX, call center infrastructure, chat platforms, AWS, and automation while collaborating closely with Solution Architects to ensure seamless integrations with customer systems.

This role requires strong software engineering skills, domain expertise, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. You'll work closely with our Customer Success team, removing technical barriers and driving value for our customers through real-time coaching and agent efficiency tools. You'll also contribute to shaping our land-and-expand sales strategy as we continue to grow rapidly.

Join our dynamic team of AI and ML experts and help transform the future of work with Cresta's innovative solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Execute on integration design and project plan created by IMs, SAs and other stakeholders
• Design, build and deploy applications using Cresta SDKs, libraries and APIs
• These applications will be integrated with contact center chat or phone platforms.
• Participate in testing, troubleshooting and maintenance of Cresta products.
• Hands on experience in Go, Python and Javascript
• Partnering with the Customer Success Manager (CSM) to triage and resolve technical issues, while also facilitating collaboration with the engineering team to ensure successful technical outcomes.

Qualifications we value:

• Operates with the enthusiasm of a salesperson, the confidence of a samurai wrestler and the precise delivery of a surgeon
• Experience in Contact Center and Customer Experience technologies such as AWS Connect, Genesys, Five9, etc. is highly desirable.
• Ability to use APIs and SDKs to build value added solutions
• Experience with AWS and Git
• Think big, deliver simple
• Able to forge strong external relationships with external technical stakeholders and in general able to take a consultative and strategic approach to solving customer problems.

Perks & Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive and people-first benefits package to support you at work and in life:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with plans to fit you and your family
• Paid parental leave for all new parents welcoming a new child
• Remote work setup budget to help you create a productive home office
• Monthly wellness and communication stipend to keep you connected and balanced
• 20 days of vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend

Compensation at Cresta:

Cresta’s approach to compensation is simple: recognize impact, reward excellence, and invest in our people. We offer competitive, location-based pay that reflects the market and what each individual brings to the table.

Compensation for this position includes a Base salary + Variable + Equity.

Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. Your recruiter can provide further details. In addition, total compensation includes a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family.

Our use of AI in recruiting: We may use AI tools in our recruiting process, which require human review and oversight. If you have questions about our use of AI or wish to opt out, please contact recruiting@cresta.ai (if you are opting out, please use the subject ‘Opt-Out’ in your email).

Recording & AI transcription: We do not authorize candidates to record or use AI transcription of any interview by phone, notetaker app, AI glasses, or other device. Candidates may request an exception or accommodation for review during the interview process as needed.

Recruiting impersonation scams: We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.