Backend Software Engineer - Engine Team (Voice Agent)

Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text and text-to-speech. The role involves leading the design and implementation of Deepgram’s Voice Agent product, focusing on building secure and scalable services for speech processing.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in an industry role
• 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
• Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems
• Experience with low-latency, multi-model orchestration for AI-enabled applications
• Experience with audio processing