Building foundational AI for speech transcription and understanding.
Software Engineering Internship
Location
United States
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$55 - $65 / hour
Seniority
Entry Level
Job Description
Software Engineering Internship
Deepgram
• Own and ship one scoped project end-to-end over the internship — from design to reviewed, tested code running in [staging/production] — with mentor check-ins at each milestone. • Land merged pull requests that improve [a component or product pillar — e.g., the ASR pipeline, TTS latency, or the developer SDKs]. • Make one measurable improvement that outlasts your term. • Use AI as a default part of how you build — [e.g., to prototype, test, or debug faster] — and share one workflow improvement back with the team. • Ramp on Deepgram's codebase and [your domain — e.g., speech/audio ML or real-time systems] deeply enough to debug and extend [system] with decreasing hand-holding by the end of the term. • Present your project and learnings to the team, and leave behind documentation so the next person builds on what you started.
Job Requirements
- You've built things because you wanted them to exist — projects, tools, scripts, or automations, whether in class, on your own, or in a prior role.
- You reach for AI as a default part of how you learn and build, not an occasional add-on — and you can talk about where it helps and where human judgment still has to lead.
- You reason from first principles: when something breaks, you dig into *why* rather than patching around it.
- You write and read code in at least one language, and you pick up new languages, tools, and codebases quickly.
- You can explain your work clearly — what you built, what broke, and what you'd do differently.
- You treat "good enough" as a question, not a finish line, and you're drawn to hard problems.
- You give and receive feedback well and want to get better fast.
Benefits
- None listed
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