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Design and refine feature-level UI for Deepgram’s Playground and Console products. Work within the Cosmos design system, support senior designers, own assigned features through production handoff, document design rationale, participate in critiques, and provide peer feedback. The role serves technical and developer audiences and encourages practical use of AI and design tools.

Build and automate security controls across bare-metal Linux infrastructure and AWS. Responsibilities include host hardening, vulnerability and patch management, container and CI/CD security, penetration testing, detection and incident response, access and log reviews, compliance evidence automation, and software supply-chain security. The role also supports customer security work and applies AI tooling to security operations.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for voice agents, integrate AI models and telephony, improve inference, debug concurrent systems, and collaborate with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

As the founding engineer of the Data Intelligence team, you will design semantic layers, develop AI tooling, and automate data processes to drive business insights.

Own and grow the self-serve developer funnel from first touch to paid customer. Define and ship product changes across onboarding, console, and activation. Build instrumentation, experimentation, and business rhythms; run rapid hypotheses, measure outcomes, and collaborate with engineering, design, dev rel, marketing, sales, and analytics.

Own adoption, retention, and expansion across a pooled portfolio of scaled customers through digital-first programs. Provide technical API integration guidance, troubleshoot issues, run demos, and create reusable enablement assets. Design automated customer journeys, webinars, self-service resources, and workflows that accelerate activation. Monitor usage and health data, identify expansion opportunities, report KPIs, and build scalable systems that reduce recurring manual work.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for speech inference and audio processing. Optimize networking, transcoding, latency, memory, and distributed compute orchestration. Measure and improve system performance, debug complex networking/scheduling/HPC issues, customize services for customers, and partner with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

Design and implement scalable, secure inference services for speech processing. Optimize networking, audio transcoding, latency, memory, and distributed compute orchestration. Debug complex system issues, customize backend services for customers, and partner with Product to deliver end-to-end features.

Own the research-to-production pipeline: harden training/evaluation workflows, build packaging/deployment tooling, design release gates, optimize inference and serving for latency/throughput, establish benchmarking and validation, and instrument feedback from production to accelerate research iteration.

Lead Deepgram's upmarket enterprise readiness by defining strategy and sequencing for SSO, compliance, security artifacts, and Console UX. Remove procurement blockers, ship solutions across Console, APIs, and managed endpoints, and work closely with engineering, design, and sales to enable self-serve enterprise procurement and speed deal closure.