# Embedded AI Engineer, On-Device Models at Deepgram

- Company: Deepgram
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.deepgram.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: USA | Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $219K to $274K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-07
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/deepgram/0b7494b3-a91e-4540-9439-5b10a1e5b391
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/deepgram-embedded-ai-engineer-on-device-models/

## 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

- Experience delivering production systems on resource-constrained hardware — embedded systems, mobile, edge AI, or small low-power devices
- Strong proficiency in C, C++, and/or Rust, with experience writing performance-critical code for constrained environments
- Hands-on experience with model optimization for on-device deployment, including quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, or architecture-specific compilation
- Familiarity with edge inference runtimes (e.g., ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, TFLite, ExecuTorch) and/or vendor-specific NPU/DSP toolchains
- A strong understanding of hardware-software interaction — CPU/GPU/NPU/DSP architectures, memory hierarchies, fixed-point/integer arithmetic, and power management — and how they affect inference performance
- Experience working close to the metal: bare-metal or RTOS environments (e.g., FreeRTOS, Zephyr), embedded Linux, or microcontroller and edge SoC development

Tags: Engineering