Deepgram

Backend Software Engineer - Engine Team (Voice Agent)

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8 months ago
Remote, United States or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$150k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Improve core inference services across networking, speech processing, model orchestration, and observability.
  • Develop integrations with in-house, third-party, and open-source AI models for perception and conversational dynamics.
  • Debug complex system issues involving networking, scheduling, and highly concurrent workloads.
  • Rapidly customize backend services to support customer needs.
  • Partner with Product to design and implement new services, features, and products end to end.
  • Build secure, robust, scalable, testable, and observable services for speech processing and voice agents.
  • Actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools as part of the company’s AI-first operating model.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of industry experience.
  • Programming experience in Rust or C/C++, with competence in Python.
  • High level of experience and understanding of version control, preferably Git.
  • Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
  • Preferred experience with low-latency, multi-model orchestration for AI-enabled applications.
  • Preferred experience with audio processing.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Annual wellness stipend
  • Mental health support
  • Life, short-term disability, and long-term disability income insurance plans
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Flexible schedule
  • 12 paid US company holidays
  • Quarterly personal productivity stipend
  • One-time home office upgrade stipend
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Tax savings programs
  • Learning and education stipend
  • Participation in talks and conferences
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • AI enablement workshops and sessions
  • Benefits are administered locally through an Employer of Record in many countries and vary by region
Deepgram

About Deepgram

201-500 employees

Deepgram builds Voice AI infrastructure for developers, offering speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agent tooling through real-time APIs and deployable on-prem software. Privately held and founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco. Customers such as Twilio, Cloudflare, and Jack in the Box use its models to power production voice features; products include Nova-3 STT, Aura TTS, and a Voice Agent API.

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