Senior LiveKit Voice AI Engineer Needed to Production-Harden Restaurant Ordering Agent

Hey everyone — I’m looking to hire a **senior LiveKit Voice AI engineer** for a short-term paid project. We already have a production-oriented voice agent built for a **restaurant**, and the system is mostly complete. I’m looking for someone experienced with **LiveKit Agents** to help us with the final production-hardening pass. The main areas are: * Finalizing and improving our **menu/order engine** * Improving **humanization, turn-taking, interruptions, and overall conversational feel** * Reviewing **latency and voice pipeline performance** * Hardening **tool calling, cart state, modifiers, quantities, and order accuracy** * Running a professional architecture/code review and cleaning up anything that could cause issues in production * Improving automated evaluations/testing where needed Our stack includes LiveKit Agents, LLM tool calling, streaming STT/TTS, telephony, and a custom backend menu/cart system. This is **not a build-from-scratch project**. The agent is already working and has gone through extensive testing. We specifically need someone senior who has shipped real-world voice agents and can help us get the last 10–15% right. Ideally you have strong experience with: * LiveKit Agents * Python / asyncio * Real-time voice AI * STT / LLM / TTS pipelines * Turn detection / VAD / barge-in * Function calling and deterministic state management * Telephony / SIP * Production monitoring and voice-agent evaluations If interested, please DM me with: 1. A brief description of your LiveKit experience 2. Examples/GitHub of voice agents you’ve built 3. Your hourly rate or preferred project rate 4. Availability over the next 1–2 weeks This is a **paid engagement**, with potential for ongoing work as we deploy the system across additional restaurant locations.