Deepgram is looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our Active Learning Team. In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of our internal data and ML training systems. You will build secure, robust, and scalable services for data cataloging, querying, access, and distributed compute orchestration for training foundational models.
What You'll Do
- Improve Deepgram’s core data ingestion, cataloging, and transformation services, including areas in networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, and latency and memory optimization.
- Engineer ML training code to be performant and highly extensible, rapidly enabling large-scale training of new foundational model architectures.
- Develop processes for measuring, building, and optimizing services to maximize system performance.
- Debug complex system issues that include networking, scheduling, database, and other persistence store interactions.
- Partner with DataOps and Research to design and implement new services, features, and/or products end to end.
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years of experience in an industry role.
- Programming experience in Rust (or C, C++), with competence in Python.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
- A high level of experience and understanding of version control, preferably git.
- Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems.
Nice to Have
- Experience with modern machine learning, such as with a framework like Torch or implementation knowledge of architectures like CNNs, RNNs, and transformers.
- Experience with audio processing.
Technical Stack
- Rust, C, C++, Python, Torch
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Active Learning Team, partnering closely with DataOps and Research. Our culture emphasizes an AI-first mindset, collaboration, putting customers first, and moving at the pace of AI. We expect active use and experimentation with advanced AI tools.
Benefits & Compensation
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Annual wellness stipend and mental health support.
- Life, STD, and LTD Income Insurance Plans.
- Unlimited PTO and generous paid parental leave.
- Flexible schedule and 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 and participation in talks and conferences.
- Employee Resource Groups and AI enablement workshops / sessions.
Deepgram is an equal opportunity employer. We want all voices and perspectives represented in our workforce. 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.
