# Software Engineer - Applied AI 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: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $174K to $212K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-04
- Apply by: 2026-12-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Deepgram/3c9a9729-7ff1-49e3-a388-f108745e4b41?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/deepgram-software-engineer-applied-ai/

## 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Experience building and shipping backend services that run in production in the cloud
- Operates AI-native: you build with modern AI coding tools as your default way of working, not occasionally, and use them to move fast without lowering the quality bar
- Learns quickly and takes on unfamiliar parts of the stack with little ramp-up
- Finds work instead of waiting for it: you recognize problems, propose solutions, and follow them through
- Has taken something from idea to production, at work or on your own time
- Communicates clearly with teammates and is comfortable working directly with customers

Tags: Engineering

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