Summary
Deepgram is the leading platform in the Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text and text-to-speech services. They are looking for a Backend Engineer to design and implement secure, robust, and scalable services for speech processing and compute orchestration, while driving high impact products from start to finish.
Responsibilities
- Improve Deepgram’s core inference services including areas in networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, and latency and memory optimization
- Develop processes for measuring, building, and optimizing services to maximize system performance
- Debug complex system issues that include networking, scheduling, and high performance computing interactions
- Rapidly customize backend services to support our customer needs
- Partner with Product to design and implement new services, features, and/or products end to end
Skills
- 3+ years of experience in an industry role
- Programming experience in Rust (or C, C++), with competence in Python
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal
- A high level of experience and understanding of version control; preferably git
- Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems
- Experience with modern machine learning, such as experience with a framework like Torch or implementation knowledge of architectures like CNNs, RNNS, and transformers
- Experience with audio processing
Qualifications
Must Haves
- 3+ years of experience in an industry role
- Programming experience in Rust (or C, C++), with competence in Python
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal
- A high level of experience and understanding of version control; preferably git
- Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems
Nice to Haves
- Experience with modern machine learning, such as experience with a framework like Torch or implementation knowledge of architectures like CNNs, RNNS, and transformers
- Experience with audio processing
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
- 10% Annual Bonus
- REMOTE