Backend Engineer – Inference Services

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Backend Engineer developing AI-driven voice processing and inference services for Deepgram. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance product offerings and driving systems performance through innovation.

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

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.
  • 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:

  • Medical, dental, vision benefits
  • Annual wellness stipend
  • Mental health support
  • Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Flexible schedule
  • 12 Paid US company holidays
  • Quarterly personal productivity stipend
  • One-time stipend for home office upgrades
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Tax Savings Programs
  • Learning / Education stipend
  • Participation in talks and conferences
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • AI enablement workshops / sessions