Senior Pre-Sales Solutions Engineer (Singapore)
Deepgram, APAC - Remote
What you will do
What you will do
- Lead technical discovery for strategic opportunities. Map business goals to measurable technical success criteria and an evaluation plan.
- Design, scope, and execute POCs that prove value. Define datasets, metrics, and timelines that land a clear technical win.
- Build lightweight prototypes, sample integrations, and demos using Deepgram SDKs and APIs.
- Advise on architecture for accuracy, latency, scalability, and cost. Cover cloud, self-hosted, hybrid, and data residency needs.
- Run security and compliance threads common in APAC. Prepare crisp responses for Singapore PDPA, Japan APPI, Korea PIPA, Australia’s Privacy Act, and India’s DPDP Act.
- Triage and debug issues during evaluations. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Support to unblock customers quickly.
- Create reusable assets that scale. Turn repeated requests into working samples, reference architectures, runbooks, and field guides.
- Partner with Solutions Architects and Support for seamless continuity after initial wins. Stay involved through expansion phases when needed.
- Enable the field. Collaborate with AEs, CSMs, and partners on positioning, demos, and technical validation for priority use cases.
Your first 90 days
Ramp approach for this role Ramping mirrors the Solutions Architect plan, with explicit ticket work and earlier support for strategic Account Executives. In the first weeks you will pick up low-risk customer tickets to learn our systems and support flow, then progress to pre-sales escalations tied to active evaluations.
What you need
- 5 or more years in Solutions Engineering or a similar customer-facing technical role focused on pre-sales.
- Professional software engineering experience in at least one language such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or Rust. You can build POCs and tools that real users run.
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms. Comfortable with Docker, Kubernetes, networking fundamentals, and secure API design.
- Proven track record leading POCs for enterprise customers and earning the technical win.
- Clear written and verbal communication across both technical and executive audiences.
Nice to have
- Experience with speech recognition, TTS, voice quality analysis, or AI agents that orchestrate LLMs.
- Familiarity with telephony and real-time media concepts such as SIP, WebRTC, streaming, and WebSocket integrations.
- Experience with self-hosted and hybrid deployments, including Helm-based installs and production observability.