# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Strategic Accounts 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: Senior
- Location: New York City, NY
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $197K to $246K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/deepgram/1645ceac-3ef9-45ba-8386-49c7c43b14f0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/deepgram-senior-forward-deployed-engineer-fde-strategic-accounts/

## 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

- Technical depth: You are an excellent software engineer. You are comfortable working across APIs, SDKs, webhooks, cloud infrastructure, and customer tech stacks. You use AI coding tools to move fast and multiply your output
- Customer obsession: Deep, personal commitment to your customers’ technical success. You take their problems home with you. You are not satisfied until the deployment is bulletproof
- High slope: Learns fast, adapts quickly, and stays effective in ambiguity without needing constant structure. You figure things out and move forward. You are excited to get your hands dirty solving gritty technical problems over sexy ones
- Communication and trust: Able to build deep credibility with both technical and non-technical stakeholders on the customer side. You are calm under pressure and relentlessly reliable

Tags: Engineering