Deepgram

Solutions Engineer

Remote

$130,000 – $185,000Compensation
Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Artificial Intelligence, Voice Technology, Software DevelopmentIndustries

Solutions Engineer

Salary: $130K - $185K Location Type: Remote Employment Type: Full-Time


Company Overview

Deepgram is the leading voice AI platform for developers building speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and full speech-to-speech (STS) offerings. Over 200,000 developers build with Deepgram’s voice-native foundational models, accessed through APIs or as self-managed software, due to our unmatched accuracy, latency, and pricing. Our customers include software companies building voice products, co-sell partners working with large enterprises, and enterprises solving internal voice AI use cases. The company ended 2024 cash-flow positive with 400+ enterprise customers, 3.3x annual usage growth across the past 4 years, over 50,000 years of audio processed, and over 1 trillion words transcribed. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.


Opportunity

Deepgram is looking to hire a Solutions Engineer to support our customers, prospects, and community by delivering world-class deep learning solutions and using state-of-the-art AI techniques to automate support, where applicable. You will work closely with Deepgram’s go-to-market team, researchers, and other engineers to identify technologies, integrations, and workflows to streamline the support experience. Your work will help identify and solve fundamental customer issues by building automated solutions. By interacting with prospective and signed customers and customer tickets directly, you’ll be able to create new training data and vet our automation tooling. You will triage immediate issues, problem-solve subtle and evasive bugs, and make product improvements to our production codebase to enhance the customer experience. You will be energized to engineer and build novel solutions to solve customer hurdles, advise on integration best practices and caveats, leverage technology to drive business value, and dive into a highly technical codebase, all with a customer-first approach.


What You’ll Do

  • Bring a highly technical and analytical view to solving customer challenges.
  • Work with customers, prospects, and community members directly to understand their market and product needs.
  • Employ your natural curiosity in building solutions for our clients.
  • Use your strong development background to serve as the technical lead throughout the customer lifecycle.
  • Rapidly build working prototypes for customers while working across engineering, sales, and marketing teams.
  • Deploy best practices and educate customers to increase adoption with a highly technical product.

You’ll Love This Role If You

  • Understand AI is here and are eager to use it for good.
  • Thrive in providing technical leadership in a client-focused environment.
  • Are curious and eager to engineer custom end-to-end solutions that lead to future automation.
  • Have a "think smart, act first" mindset (one of our core values).
  • Are excited to work with cutting-edge hardware and high-performance software stacks.

It’s Important To Us That You Have

  • Strong engineering background with proven proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Rust, and TypeScript/JavaScript.
  • Ability to learn, digest, and deploy technical solutions in a range of technical stacks.
  • Experience delivering software demonstrations to audiences ranging from the C-suite, developers, and less-technical end-users.
  • Experience partnering with sales to win and expand business by providing technical solutions.
  • Proven experience solving problems with a critical focus.
  • Proven experience building and supporting software products.

It Would Be Great If You Had

  • An understanding of the processes involved in modern machine learning frameworks, e.g., PyTorch, ONNX, TensorRT, HuggingFace models.

About Deepgram

Backed by prominent investors including Y Combinator, Madrona, Tiger Global, Wing VC, and NVIDIA, Deepgram has raised over $85 million in total funding. If you're looking to work on cutting-edge technology and make a significant impact in the AI industry, we'd love to hear from you!

Deepgram is an equal opportunity employer.

Skills

Solutions Engineering
Deep Learning
AI
Speech-to-Text (STT)
Text-to-Speech (TTS)
Speech-to-Speech (STS)
API Integration
Problem-Solving
Debugging
Customer Support
Technical Support
Codebase Improvement
Automation

Deepgram

Speech recognition APIs for audio transcription

About Deepgram

Deepgram specializes in artificial intelligence for speech recognition, offering a set of APIs that developers can use to transcribe and understand audio content. Their technology allows clients, ranging from startups to large organizations like NASA, to process millions of audio minutes daily. Deepgram's APIs are designed to be fast, accurate, scalable, and cost-effective, making them suitable for businesses needing to handle large volumes of audio data. The company operates on a pay-per-use model, where clients are charged based on the amount of audio they transcribe, allowing Deepgram to grow its revenue alongside client usage. With a focus on the high-growth market of speech recognition, Deepgram is positioned for future success.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2015Year Founded
$100.5MTotal Funding
SERIES_BCompany Stage
Data & Analytics, AI & Machine LearningIndustries
51-200Employees

Benefits

Comprehensive Health Plans
FSA Health Matching up to $1,000
Work from Home Ergonomic Stipend
Healthy Food & Snacks in offices
Community Groups
Unlimited Vacation

Risks

Increased competition from open-source solutions like OpenAI's Whisper threatens market share.
Recent layoffs suggest potential financial instability or strategic restructuring challenges.
Integration of Poised may cause disruptions in service or product development.

Differentiation

Deepgram's APIs offer fast, accurate, and scalable speech recognition solutions.
The acquisition of Poised enhances Deepgram's real-time feedback capabilities in virtual meetings.
Aura API provides low-latency, human-like voice models for conversational AI agents.

Upsides

Strategic partnership with Clarifai accelerates AI application development and market expansion.
Aura API positions Deepgram to capitalize on real-time conversational voice AI trends.
Deepgram's technology is used by large enterprises like NASA, indicating strong market trust.

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