Deepgram
Backend Engineer- Inference Services
$150K–$220K
USA - Remote · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jul 9, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of experience in an industry role.
About the job
Designs, builds, and optimizes scalable backend inference services for Deepgram’s speech-processing products.
What you'll do
- Improve inference services, including networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, latency, and memory optimization.
- Develop processes to measure and optimize service performance, and debug complex system issues.
- Partner with Product to build services and features end to end and adapt backend services to customer needs.
What they ask for
- Programming experience in Rust (or C, C++), with competence in Python.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
- 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 Torch or implementation knowledge of CNNs, RNNS, and transformers.
- Experience with audio processing.
Pay
$150K – $220K (base salary); 10% Annual Bonus (bonus; amount not stated)
Tools
Rust, C, C++, Python, git, UNIX, Torch, CNNs
AI focus
The role develops and optimizes speech-processing inference services. Deepgram also expects employees to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools in their work.
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