Senior Pre-Sales Engineer (Australia)

Overview

Senior Pre-Sales Solutions Engineer in Australia, supporting strategic technical evaluations and driving repeatable adoption across APAC.

What you'll do

• Lead technical discovery for strategic opportunities.
• Design, scope, and execute POCs to prove value.
• Build lightweight prototypes, sample integrations, and demos using Deepgram SDKs/APIs.
• Advise customer architecture for accuracy, latency, scalability, and cost.
• Run security and compliance threads for APAC requirements (e.g., PDPA/APPI/PIPA/Privacy Act/DPDP).
• Triage and debug issues during evaluations with Product/Engineering/Support.

What you'll need

• 5+ years in Solutions Engineering or a similar customer-facing pre-sales technical role.
• Professional software engineering experience in at least one: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or Rust.
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms and comfort with Docker, Kubernetes, networking, and secure API design.
• Proven track record leading POCs for enterprise customers and earning the technical win.
• Clear written and verbal communication across technical and executive audiences.

Details

• Based in Australia with overlap to East Asia, Southeast Asia, and ANZ business hours.
• Estimated travel within the region: 10 to 20 percent.
• Minimum qualifications specify language overlap and English proficiency.