Deepgram

Backend Engineer

Deepgram

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $220,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

PythonRustUnix

About the role

  • Lead design and implementation of Deepgram’s backend products and services for speech AI
  • Improve core inference services including networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, and latency/memory optimization
  • Develop processes for measuring, building, and optimizing services to maximize system performance
  • Debug complex system issues spanning networking, scheduling, and high-performance computing interactions
  • Rapidly customize backend services to support customer needs
  • Partner with Product to design and implement new services, features, and products end to end

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in an industry role
  • Programming experience in Rust (or C, C++)
  • Competence in Python
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills
  • High level of experience and understanding of version control (preferably git)
  • Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems
  • (Nice to have) Experience with modern machine learning frameworks (e.g., Torch) and architectures (CNNs, RNNs, transformers)
  • (Nice to have) Experience with audio processing