Senior Software Engineer - Model Evaluation & AI Systems
Deepgram · CA
$180,000–$240,000
Jul 27, 2026
CA
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role at a voice AI platform focused on building and owning the infrastructure that validates model quality before and after release. The engineer will design automated evaluation pipelines, regression-detection canaries, and CI/CD quality gates spanning speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and LLM/multimodal systems, working closely with Research and product teams. Strong candidates combine backend engineering depth with comfort reasoning about ML metrics and model behavior.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 93,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 39,300–140,500
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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Why we read it this way (6)
The role sits at the boundary between Software Developer (15-1252) and QA/Test Engineer (15-1253): it involves building evaluation infrastructure and test frameworks (QA-leaning) but is framed as a senior software engineering role requiring backend engineering depth and pipeline/orchestration work. 15-1252 was chosen as primary because the JD emphasizes building scalable systems and infrastructure, not just writing/executing tests.
No work location or CBSA is specified in the posting; the role appears to be fully remote based on the absence of any office requirement.
The degree requirement lists BS/MS/PhD but explicitly accepts 'equivalent experience,' so no minimum degree is hard-gated.
Python, Rust, and Go are listed together as interchangeable scripting/backend language options ('a language such as Python, Rust, Go, or similar'); Python is used as the primary name with Rust and Go as alternatives.
All 'Nice to Have' items — LLMs/RAG/agents, React Native, Grafana, GPU clusters, voice/audio/WER/MOS experience, open-source involvement — appear under the explicit 'Nice to Have / Ways to Stand Out' heading and are marked as preferred accordingly.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
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