Base Salary
$160k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own technical delivery for federal deployments from initial prototype through stable production.
- Embed with federal customers to design and build mission-critical applications powered by Deepgram’s Voice AI models.
- Lead technical discovery, solution design, demos, proof-of-concepts, and proposal support with Account Executives.
- Build full-stack integrations using Python, JavaScript, Rust, or comparable technologies.
- Enable deployments across customer environments with observable systems spanning infrastructure through applications.
- Advise federal stakeholders on operational value, performance optimization, and deployment strategies.
- Scope work, sequence delivery, remove blockers, and balance scope, speed, and quality.
- Manage relationships with customer leadership and technical stakeholders.
- Contribute directly to production code when needed.
- Create reusable tools, playbooks, reference architectures, automation, documentation, and building blocks.
- Share field feedback with Product and Engineering to influence model and product development.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues in federal deployments.
- Analyze deployment patterns to identify product opportunities and inform federal go-to-market strategy.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance or equivalent.
- At least 5 years of engineering or technical deployment experience, ideally in customer-facing or government environments.
- Professional software development experience in a modern programming language such as Python or JavaScript.
- Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous contexts.
- Experience building and deploying production systems in government or similarly constrained environments.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for technical, non-technical, and senior government stakeholders.
- Experience navigating complex federal sales or procurement cycles.
- Willingness to travel up to 50%, including on-site work at government facilities.
- Preferred: experience with speech recognition, NLP, AI or voice agents, or related AI technologies.
- Preferred: familiarity with AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, Kubernetes, Terraform, and related infrastructure.
- Preferred: experience with systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
- Preferred: knowledge of FedRAMP, FISMA, or other government compliance frameworks.
- Preferred: experience with API-first products, developer tools, automation, self-service tools, and technical documentation.
- Preferred: familiarity with MEDDIC or Solution Selling in government contexts.
Benefits
- Remote role based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, with travel up to 50% and on-site work at government facilities.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits; wellness stipend; mental health support; and life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Unlimited paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible scheduling, and 12 paid U.S. company holidays.
- Quarterly personal productivity stipend, one-time home-office upgrade stipend, 401(k) with company match, and tax savings programs.
- Learning and education stipend, conference participation, employee resource groups, and AI enablement workshops.
- Benefits for international employees are administered locally through an Employer of Record and vary by region.
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About Deepgram
Deepgram is the real-time API platform powering the trillion-dollar Voice AI economy. Backed by a $130M Series C at a $1.3B valuation, Deepgram is trusted by 200,000+ developers and 1,300+ organizations to build Voice AI products, platforms, and autonomous agents with the lowest latency, highest accuracy, and enterprise reliability. Our voice-native foundation models and runtime infrastructure have processed 50,000+ years of audio and over 1 trillion words, making Deepgram the most experienced voice AI platform in the world. Industry-leading models & platform: 👂 Nova-3 — the world’s most accurate real-time speech-to-text model 🔊 Aura-2 — professional, enterprise-grade text-to-speech 💬 Flux — the first Conversational Speech Recognition model designed to handle interruptions 🚀 Voice Agent API — enterprise-ready, real-time conversational AI 🧠 Saga — the Voice OS Beyond core infrastructure, Deepgram is expanding the Voice AI ecosystem through: 💪 Powered by Deepgram, supporting voice products built by leading AI startups and enterprise organizations 🌉 A new Voice AI Collaboration Hub in San Francisco for builders, partners, and the voice community 🍔 The acquisition of OfOne, delivering real-time Voice AI for restaurants and drive-thru operations with 95%+ containment 📃 A growing patent portfolio in Voice AI Much like APIs powered the payments and cloud economies, Deepgram is building the foundation for a trillion-dollar B2B Voice AI economy—centered on the most natural human interface: voice.