Deepgram
Building foundational AI for speech transcription and understanding.
Software Engineer, Voice Agents, AI
Location
California
Posted
7 days ago
Salary
$160K - $250K / year
Bachelor Degree4 yrs expEnglishAWSCloud
Job Description
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend systems for our automated order-taking platform
• Collaborate closely with our team to ensure the seamless integration of our backend with our ML models and client devices
• Monitor and optimize the performance of our backend systems in production environments
• Build and maintain integrations with 3rd party restaurant software systems like POS, loyalty, payment gateways, and customer data platforms
• Implement best practices in system design, code quality, and testing to ensure a reliable, secure, and maintainable system
• Optimize AI pipeline to improve performance in challenging audio environments, robustly handle ambiguous customer requests, and rapidly scale to new menus
• Push the very boundaries of LLMs and voice AI technology to solve one of the technology industry’s historically elusive challenges
• Run experiments to validate the product impact of new functionality
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing, implementing, and maintaining backend infrastructure in production environments
- Proven track record of building and deploying scalable, high-performance backend systems
- Experience with cloud-based infrastructure and deployment technologies, such as AWS and API design
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to a rapidly evolving startup environment
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with a team
- Willingness to problem solve across our entire product
- Ability to proactively recognize problems and identify solutions to those problems
- Results oriented and care about the impact of your work
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision benefits
- Annual wellness stipend
- Mental health support
- Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
- 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
- Learning / Education stipend
- Participation in talks and conferences
- Employee Resource Groups
- AI enablement workshops / sessions