Deepgram

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Strategic Accounts

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

$197k - $246k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with customer engineering teams as a trusted technical peer and lead technical discovery and solutioning.
  • Own end-to-end technical integrations and deployments from scoping and architecture through go-live and optimization.
  • Configure and customize the voice AI platform for restaurant menus, ordering flows, POS integrations, and operational edge cases.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues in live deployments, serving as an escalation point when needed.
  • Build deployment tools, playbooks, reference architectures, and reusable building blocks.
  • Translate deployment challenges and customer feedback into actionable product and engineering requirements.

Requirements

  • Excellent software engineering skills with hands-on experience writing code, reading logs, and shipping fixes.
  • Comfort working across APIs, SDKs, webhooks, cloud infrastructure, and customer technology stacks.
  • Ability to build credibility with technical and non-technical customer stakeholders and communicate calmly under pressure.
  • Strong ownership, urgency, adaptability, and effectiveness in ambiguous environments.
  • Comfort using AI coding tools and experimenting with advanced AI capabilities.
  • Preferred experience with voice AI, speech-to-text, NLP, or conversational AI systems.
  • Preferred experience in an early-stage or founder-led startup environment.
  • Preferred experience embedded within a large enterprise customer product deployment.

Benefits

  • The role is based in New York City or San Francisco.
  • Occasional travel is required for customer meetings, sales engagements, and key onsite interactions.

Categories

Forward Deployed
Deepgram

About Deepgram

51-200 employees

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.

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