Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Company Overview

Deepgram is a foundational AI company on a mission to transform human-machine interaction using natural language. We give any developer access to the fastest, most powerful voice AI platform including access to models for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and spoken language understanding with just an API call. From transcription to sentiment analysis to voice synthesis, Deepgram is the preferred partner for builders of voice AI applications.

We will be accepting applications until November 15th

Opportunity

Deepgram is looking for a backend software engineer to help lead the design and implementation of Deepgram’s products. You will design and implement secure, robust, and scalable services for speech processing; efficient, distributed compute orchestration; optimized scheduling, and more. Your skill at building highly reusable code that overcomes technical challenges is paired with an intuition for delightful user experiences. You will be a critical voice in Deepgram’s Product and Engineering teams, driving high impact products from start to finish.

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

You’ll Love This Role If You

• 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

It’s Important To Us That You Have

• At least several 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

It Would Be Great if You Had

• 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

Why this role isn’t for you

• You don't have any industry experience shipping products

• You need the structure and resources of a larger company to produce

• You’re not comfortable having tough product conversations

Backed by prominent investors including Y Combinator, Madrona, Tiger Global, Wing VC and NVIDIA, Deepgram has raised over $85 million in total funding after closing our Series B funding round last year. If you're looking to work on cutting-edge technology and make a significant impact in the AI industry, we'd love to hear from you!

Deepgram is an equal opportunity employer. We want all voices and perspectives represented in our workforce. We are a curious bunch focused on collaboration and doing the right thing. We put our customers first, grow together and move quickly. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

We are happy to provide accommodations for applicants who need them.

Compensation Range: $140K - $190K