Deepgram is looking for a backend software engineer to lead the design and implementation of Deepgram’s products, focusing on secure, robust, and scalable services for speech processing, efficient compute orchestration, and optimized scheduling.
Requirements
- Programming experience in Rust (or C, C++), with competence in Python
- 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
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
Other
- 3+ years of experience in an industry role
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, impact-driven environment where learning new skills on-the-fly is not only encouraged but a regular necessity
- Enjoy balancing decisions about product and feature maturity to decide when to make minimally invasive changes versus when to incorporate detailed design work
