Backend Software Engineer - Engine Team (Voice Agent)

Deepgram is looking for a backend software engineer to lead the design and implementation of Deepgram’s Voice Agent product. You will design and implement secure, robust, and scalable services for speech processing; build integrations supporting telephony providers, RAG systems, and diverse deployment scenarios; engineer for testability and observability within a complex chain of AI models; and more.

Your skill at building highly reusable code that overcomes technical challenges is paired with an intuition for delightful user experiences. You will be a critical voice in Deepgram’s Product and Engineering teams, driving high impact products from start to finish.

- Improve Deepgram’s core inference services including areas in networking, speech processing, model orchestration, and observability

- Develop integrations with cutting edge in-house, third-party, and open-source AI models for perception and managing conversational dynamics

- Debug complex system issues that include networking, scheduling, and highly concurrent workloads

- Rapidly customize backend services to support our customer needs

- Partner with Product to design and implement new services, features, and/or products end to end

- Thrive in a fast-paced, impact-driven environment where learning new skills on-the-fly is not only encouraged but a regular necessity

- Enjoy balancing decisions about product and feature maturity to decide when to make minimally invasive changes versus when to incorporate detailed design work

- Programming experience in Rust (or C, C++), with competence in Python

- Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal.

- A high level of experience and understanding of version control; preferably git.

- Experience with low-latency, multi-model orchestration for AI-enabled applications