174K–212K USD / year
Software Engineer - Applied AI
AIOn-site — San Francisco, CA
Published on 2026-11-04
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About this role
Build and ship production features for voice AI products, including drive-thru and phone-ordering agents. The role combines backend engineering, customer problem-solving, experimentation, and model adaptation in a fast-moving, AI-first environment.
About the company
Deepgram builds speech-to-text and voice AI APIs that convert audio into text and power voice applications for developers and enterprises.
The team
Applied AI team, working directly with enterprise customers and technology partners on voice AI problems without off-the-shelf solutions.
Stack
KotlinPythonTypeScript
What you'll do
- Ship production features for live voice agent products.
- Own customer problems from diagnosis through production fixes.
- Build reusable agent modules for use across customers and industries.
- Improve agent accuracy on real-world menus and catalogs.
- Contribute to fine-tuning and model adaptation.
- Run experiments to measure customer outcomes.
What we're looking for
- Experience building and shipping cloud backend services.
- Use modern AI coding tools as a regular part of your workflow.
- Learn unfamiliar parts of the stack quickly and take initiative.
- Have taken a project from idea to production.
- Communicate clearly and work directly with customers.
- Work comfortably across programming languages.
Nice to have
- Experience training, fine-tuning, or adapting models.
- Experience building model or agent evaluation and scoring.
- Experience with audio, speech-to-text, or text-to-speech.
- Founder, early-stage startup, or zero-to-one engineering experience.
- Typically 2+ years of engineering experience or equivalent.
Benefits
- Equity
- 10% bonus