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DeepgramDeepgramCalifornia

Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer building and optimizing Deepgram's core inference services for speech processing, including networking, audio transcoding, latency/memory optimization, and distributed compute orchestration. Requires 3+ years experience with Rust (or C/C++) and Python.

150k – 220k
Remote3+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • 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.

Nice-to-Haves

  • 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.

Skills

RustPythonC++CGitUnixTorchCnnRnnTransformersAudio Processing

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