Deepgram

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Strategic Accounts

Deepgram
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2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
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Base Salary

$197k - $246k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with customer engineering teams and lead technical discovery and solutioning.
  • Own end-to-end integration and deployment of Deepgram’s voice AI platform, from scoping and architecture through go-live and optimization.
  • Configure the platform for customer-specific menu structures, ordering flows, POS integrations, and operational edge cases.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues in live deployments and serve as an escalation point.
  • Build reusable deployment tools, playbooks, reference architectures, and technical building blocks.
  • Translate deployment learnings into actionable requirements for Deepgram product and engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Excellent software engineering skills with hands-on experience writing code, reading logs, and shipping fixes.
  • Comfort working with APIs, SDKs, webhooks, cloud infrastructure, and customer technology stacks.
  • Ability to build credibility with technical and non-technical customer stakeholders and operate effectively in ambiguity.
  • Commitment to customer technical success, ownership, urgency, adaptability, and use of AI coding tools.
  • Experience with voice AI, speech-to-text, NLP, or conversational AI systems is preferred.
  • Experience in an early-stage startup or founder-led environment is preferred.
  • Experience embedded within a large enterprise customer’s product deployment is preferred.

Categories

Forward Deployed
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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