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Applied ML Engineer - Edge Devices

Deepgram · USA | Remote · Remote

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About Deepgram

Power enterprise voice solutions with Deepgram’s Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, and Voice Agent APIs. Real-time, accurate, and built for scale. Backed by Y Combinator and Madrona.

About the role

Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are ‘Powered by Deepgram’, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box.

What they're looking for

  • Hands-on experience deploying ML models to edge or non-NVIDIA hardware in production. This is required. Cloud-only or GPU-only serving experience does not qualify on its own
  • Working knowledge of quantization and precision tradeoffs (INT8, FP16, mixed precision, calibration) and how they affect accuracy and latency on real targets
  • Experience with at least one edge or vendor inference runtime and its conversion toolchain (for example ONNX Runtime, TFLite, ExecuTorch, OpenVINO, Qualcomm AI Engine, or a vendor NPU SDK)
  • Ability to modify a model to fit a platform: reading and rewriting model graphs, swapping unsupported operators, and adjusting architecture parameters without breaking accuracy
  • Strong Python and PyTorch, and production-quality engineering habits: tests, reproducibility, and benchmarks that others can rerun
  • Comfort building automation around model conversion and deployment
More about this role

Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are ‘Powered by Deepgram’, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box. Deepgram’s voice-native foundation models are accessed through cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software, with unmatched accuracy, low latency, and cost efficiency. Backed by a recent Series C led by leading global investors and strategic partners, Deepgram has processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.

At Deepgram, we expect an AI-first mindset—AI use and comfort aren’t optional, they’re core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance.

Every team member who works at Deepgram is expected to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and even build your own into your everyday work. We measure how effectively AI is...

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