Company Overview

Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are 'Powered by Deepgram', including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box. Deepgram's voice-native foundation models are accessed through cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software, with unmatched accuracy, low latency, and cost efficiency. Backed by a recent Series C led by leading global investors and strategic partners, Deepgram has processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.

Company Operating Rhythm

• Improve Deepgram's core inference services including areas in networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, and latency and memory optimization
• Develop processes for measuring, building, and optimizing services to maximize system performance
• Debug complex system issues that include networking, scheduling, and high performance computing interactions
• 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
• 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 modern machine learning, such as experience with a framework like Torch or implementation knowledge of architectures like CNNs, RNNS, and transformers
• Experience with audio processing

Benefits

& PERKS*

Holistic Health

• Medical, dental, vision benefits
• Annual wellness stipend
• Mental health support
• Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans

Life Blend

• Unlimited PTO
• Generous paid parental leave
• Flexible schedule
• 12 Paid US company holidays
• Quarterly personal productivity stipend
• One-time stipend for home office upgrades
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Tax Savings Programs

Continuous Learning

• Learning / Education stipend
• Participation in talks and conferences
• Employee Resource Groups
• AI enablement workshops / sessions