About the role

Why This Role

As a Founding Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Cekura, you'll work hand-in-hand with our largest customers to help them test and deploy AI voice agents into production - embedding with their teams, navigating complex environments, and building real-world solutions that drive impact.

This hybrid role spans engineering, product, and customer success. One week you’re deep in AI workflows or backend integration; the next, you’re sharing critical insights to shape the product roadmap.

If you thrive wearing many hats, enjoy solving tough problems, and want to make AI agents more reliable and production-ready - you’ll love this role.

What You’ll Do

Make Enterprise Customers Love You – Partner with sales to close deals and deliver outstanding outcomes for our largest customers. You'll embed with their teams, build integrations, and ensure a smooth path to production with our platform.

Design Scenarios That Push the Limits – Create real-world and edge-case conversations that challenge voice agents across diverse workflows. Your scenarios will uncover bugs, blind spots, and improve reliability.

Drive the Product to Be More Valuable – Help prioritize features and shape the roadmap based on hands-on customer needs.

Be the Go-To Tech Guru – Lead workshops, troubleshoot complex issues, craft demos, improve docs, and unblock adoption.

Who You Are

Hands-on with a CS/EE background from Tier 1 College (IITs)
Strong communicator across tech and business
Fast, detail-oriented, and execution-focused
Curious about LLMs, prompt engineering, and voice AI
Thrives in fast-moving environments

About Cekura (formerly Vocera)

Cekura is a Y Combinator–backed startup redefining AI voice agent reliability. Founded by IIT Bombay alumni with research credentials from ETH Zurich and proven success in high-stakes trading, our team built Cekura to solve the cumbersome, error-prone nature of manual voice agent testing.

We automate the testing and observability of AI voice agents by simulating thousands of realistic, real-world conversational scenarios—from ordering food and booking appointments to conducting interviews. Our platform leverages custom and AI-generated datasets, detailed workflows, and dynamic persona simulations to uncover edge cases and deliver actionable insights. Real-time monitoring, comprehensive logs, and instant alerting ensure that every call is optimized and production-ready.

In a market rapidly expanding with thousands of voice agents, Cekura stands out by guaranteeing dependable performance, reducing time-to-market, and minimizing costly production errors. We empower teams to demonstrate reliability before deployment, making it easier to build trust with clients and users.

Join us in shaping the future of voice technology. Learn more at cekura.ai.