The observed roles span implementation, integration, agent operations, support, security, product ownership and commercial development. The bands below are individual advertised examples—not national averages, accepted offers or recommended procurement budgets.
Amounts are annual US dollars unless stated otherwise. Base salary, advertised compensation and on-target earnings (OTE) are kept separate. Where the employer does not clearly identify a figure as base salary, this report does not relabel it.
Which delivery and workflow roles are visible?
| Employer and role | Location stated | Advertised pay and treatment | Responsibilities that matter to buyers | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retell AI — Senior Forward Deployed Engineer | SF Bay Area/New York in header; role details specify Redwood City | $180,000–$300,000 estimated base, plus equity | Prototype-to-production delivery; CRM, ERP and scheduling integrations; reusable implementation components | P. (jobs.ashbyhq.com) |
| Vapi — Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed | New York; hybrid | $200,000–$280,000 advertised compensation, plus equity | Own enterprise deployments, write production code and convert customer work into platform improvements | P. (jobs.ashbyhq.com) |
| Vapi — Agent Engineer | San Francisco; hybrid | $160,000–$180,000 advertised compensation; equity and commission listed | Technical discovery, agent architecture, prototypes, APIs, webhooks and enterprise deployment design | P. (jobs.ashbyhq.com) |
| Retell AI — Deployment Strategist | SF Bay Area; on-site | $170,000–$260,000 advertised compensation, plus equity | Discovery, implementation planning, stakeholder alignment, business cases and production launch | P. (jobs.ashbyhq.com) |
| Avoca — CRM Integration Consultant | Remote | $120,000–$150,000 base, plus bonus and equity | ServiceTitan configuration, booking and capacity troubleshooting, synchronisation problems and customer training | P; newer title at the shared requisition URL. (jobs.ashbyhq.com) |
| Arini — Forward Deployed Engineer | San Francisco | $120,000–$250,000 listed salary range, with equity separately advertised | Embed with healthcare operators; integrate practice-management, billing and payment systems; deliver production workflows | R, employer-authored Y Combinator listing. (ycombinator.com) |
| Assort Health — Agent Operations | San Francisco; hybrid | $140,000–$175,000 base, plus equity | Agent QA tooling, transfer analysis, performance dashboards, data integrity and implementation-process improvement | P. (jobs.ashbyhq.com) |
| Assort Health — Agent Support Engineer | San Francisco; hybrid | $115,000–$140,000 advertised compensation | Post-launch support for accounts requiring US-based data handling; incident investigation, support playbooks and resolution metrics | P. (jobs.ashbyhq.com) |
Which ownership, security and commercial roles are visible?
| Employer and role | Location stated | Advertised pay and treatment | Responsibilities that matter to buyers | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vapi — Member of Technical Staff, DevSecOps | San Francisco; hybrid | $180,000–$280,000 advertised compensation, plus equity | Infrastructure hardening, security automation, release controls and compliance-roadmap ownership | P. (jobs.ashbyhq.com) |
| ServiceNow — Senior Inbound Product Manager, CRM Voice AI | Flexible/remote; North America region | $143,200–$243,400 base, plus applicable equity and incentives; confirm the location-specific range | Customer delivery pods, production launches, evaluation frameworks, analytics and customer self-service | R; precise pay geography was not exposed in the retrieved page. (jobs.smartrecruiters.com) |
| Rime — Founding Account Executive, Enterprise | San Francisco Bay Area; on-site | $250,000–$300,000 OTE, not base salary | Build pipeline, conduct technical discovery, close enterprise contracts and expand accounts | P. (jobs.ashbyhq.com) |
| WEX — Sr. Product Manager, AI Capabilities | Portland, Maine | $125,300–$154,100 base; other compensation may apply | Own the internal Voice AI roadmap, production validation, customer-service KPIs and cross-functional delivery | J, accessible employer-description copy on Indeed. (indeed.com) |
Historical comparator: PolyAI advertised a US Senior Agent Design Engineer at $110,000–$125,000 salary, plus equity, with possible location-based adjustments. The work combined conversational design, Python, agent workflows and evaluation methods. Its accessible recruitment page is closed, so this is a skills-and-pay reference, not a current opening. (jobs.sandscapitalventures.com)
Are lower-cost remote roles directly comparable?
No: geography, employment terms and coverage hours must remain attached to the pay figure. Retell’s internationally oriented Telephony Engineer listing advertises $25–$45 per hour and specifies US Eastern business-hour availability. A separate remote Support Engineer contract advertises $6,000–$7,500 per month and describes a full-time contractor arrangement. Neither should be presented as a US salaried-engineer benchmark or a promise of round-the-clock support. (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
For an AI after-hours answering service, ask who is available when the business is closed—not merely whether the supplier employs people in several countries.