Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Deepgram is the leading platform for Voice AI, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text and text-to-speech services. They are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design and implement scalable services for speech processing and enhance core inference services.

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

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