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Deepgram
Posted 66 days agoVerified live 16h ago

Backend Engineer- Inference Services

Brief overview

Remote
$150k–$220k/yrStated range
3+ yrsMinimum
2 H-1B approvalsDept. of Labor
RustCC++PythonGitUNIX-style systemsMachine learning frameworksConvolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)TransformersAudio processing

About the company

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Deepgram is a leading voice AI platform for developers building speech-to-text and text-to-speech offerings.

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2H-1B approved
100%approval rate
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Job description

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

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