Backend Engineer - Inference Services - Remote

Overview

Deepgram is the leading voice AI platform for developers building speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS) and full speech-to-speech (STS) offerings. 200,000+ developers build with Deepgram’s voice-native foundational models – accessed through APIs or as self-managed software – due to our unmatched accuracy, latency and pricing. Customers include software companies building voice products, co-sell partners working with large enterprises, and enterprises solving internal voice AI use cases. The company ended 2024 cash-flow positive with 400+ enterprise customers, 3.3x annual usage growth across the past 4 years, over 50,000 years of audio processed and over 1 trillion words transcribed. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.

In Short

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in the AI industry.
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Support for personal and professional growth.
• Equal opportunity employer.
• Accommodations available for applicants who need them.