Engineering Manager, Engine Team

Deepgram is the leading platform in the Voice AI economy, providing APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agents. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the design and implementation of their core voice AI APIs, managing teams to build and maintain critical systems while collaborating with Product and Research teams.

Responsibilities:

• Recruit, hire, train, and support top engineering talent to build a world-class team
• Transform cross-functional visions into detailed project plans, ensuring clarity across teams on commitments, risks, and timelines
• Define and own the technical strategy enabling Deepgram’s core APIs to remain best-in-class for scalability and reliability
• Promote a robust team engineering culture, including a focus on rigorous engineering standards as well as continuous improvement on team practices and processes
• Partner with Product and Research to design and implement new services, features, and/or products end to end
• Coach and mentor engineers to achieve high personal growth while delivering on ambitious team goals

Requirements:

• Proven experience managing and leading and growing a team with a consistent record of mentoring and coaching team members
• A strong technical background building world class solutions
• The ability to drive technical decisions in a scalable and thoughtful manner
• Passion about good engineering practices, emerging technologies, and improving processes
• A passion for navigating the team through the real-world constraints of a startup: how to build quickly, iterate frequently, and run experiments
• Strong practical experience with software architecture and implementation, plus the ability to engage with an Engineering team to help build and scale the existing infrastructure
• Experience working in high-growth startups
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud models (bare-metal datacenters and cloud service providers)
• Deep experience with machine learning inference at scale