# Backend Engineer- Inference Services at Deepgram

- Company: Deepgram
- What the company does: Power enterprise voice solutions with Deepgram’s Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, and Voice Agent APIs. Real-time, accurate, and built for scale. Backed by Y Combinator and Madrona.
- Company website: https://www.deepgram.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: USA | Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/deepgram/2084edc0-2df0-4bd4-b759-0f05c38d5ef5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/deepgram-backend-engineer-inference-services/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering