# Senior Software Engineer - Model Evaluation & AI Systems 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: USA | Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $180K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/deepgram/6f3d761e-4873-43af-a9b1-daeb147661f9
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/deepgram-senior-software-engineer-model-evaluation-and-ai-systems/

## 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

- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, AI, Applied Math, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of professional software or QA engineering experience, with a track record of shipping test infrastructure or evaluation systems (senior candidates with significantly deeper experience welcome)
- Solid backend/scripting experience in a language such as Python, Rust, Go, or similar
- Experience designing and building automated test pipelines, evaluation frameworks, or data-processing systems
- Strong analytical skills and comfort reasoning about metrics, thresholds, and statistical variation in results — able to distinguish real regressions from noise
- Ability to take charge of ambiguous technical challenges and communicate effectively across research, engineering, and product teams

Tags: Engineering