Senior Applied AI Engineer - Voice & Speech Systems

Aimlroles; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Deepgram is seeking an engineer for the Applied AI team to tackle tough voice AI problems for enterprise customers. You will design and scale backend systems, improve STT and TTS quality, and refine model evaluation and scoring.

The role emphasizes training/adapting models, not just using LLMs, with close collaboration across ML, backend, and client devices. We value 4+ years of cloud infra experience, strong problem solving, and excellent communication to thrive in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure in production.
• Applied AI/ML experience beyond using LLMs — training, fine-tuning or adapting models yourself.
• Experience evaluating AI systems, such as building evaluation or scoring for models or agents.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend systems for our platform
• Improve speech-to-text and text-to-speech quality across an array of environments
• Expand robust scoring and evaluation of our agents
• Fine-tune and adapt models for customer-specific vocabulary and domains
• Optimize the AI pipeline to improve performance in challenging audio environments, robustly handle ambiguous customer requests, and rapidly scale to new domains
• Run experiments to validate the product impact of new functionality
• Collaborate closely with the team to ensure seamless integration between our ML models, backend and client devices

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Applied AI/ML

Model evaluation

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Communication

Proactive problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Python

Kotlin

TypeScript

Job description

Deepgram is seeking an engineer for the Applied AI team to tackle tough voice AI problems for enterprise customers. You will design and scale backend systems, improve STT and TTS quality, and refine model evaluation and scoring.

The role emphasizes training/adapting models, not just using LLMs, with close collaboration across ML, backend, and client devices. We value 4+ years of cloud infra experience, strong problem solving, and excellent communication to thrive in a fast-moving startup.