Deepgram
Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer, Federal
$180K–$245K
Washington D.C. · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 6, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience; ideally in customer-facing or government environments.
About the job
Leads technical delivery for federal customers deploying Deepgram’s Voice AI, from discovery and prototypes through production, optimization, and ongoing support in constrained environments.
What you'll do
- Own federal deployment delivery, including discovery, solution design, integrations, production operation, and troubleshooting.
- Build and deploy full-stack solutions and Deepgram models in self-hosted, air-gapped, and edge environments.
- Develop reusable tools and deployment practices, advise stakeholders, and share customer feedback with Product and Engineering.
What they ask for
- Active Top Secret clearance, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience.
- Professional software development experience in at least one modern programming language, such as Python or JavaScript.
- Experience delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous contexts; production experience in government or similarly constrained environments.
Nice to have
- Experience with speech recognition, NLP, AI/Voice agents, or related AI technologies.
- Familiarity with government cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, on-premises or air-gapped deployments, or government compliance frameworks.
Pay
$180K – $245K USD base salary
Tools
Python, JavaScript, Rust, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, Kubernetes, Terraform
AI focus
Deploys Deepgram Voice AI models for federal missions; the posting also encourages experimentation with advanced AI tools in everyday work.
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