Embedded AI Engineer, On-Device Models
Deepgram, USA - Remote
The role
Deepgram's speech models are among the fastest and most accurate in the world, and we have deep machinery for running them on NVIDIA GPUs. Our customers need them on everything else: non-NVIDIA accelerators, embedded SoCs, mobile application processors, DSPs and NPUs, and purpose-built devices with tight memory, compute, thermal, and power budgets. When a target platform's standard kernels and runtime can't run a Deepgram model well enough, someone has to go below them. That is this role.
As an Embedded AI Engineer on the Partner Platform Engineering team, you work at the lowest layer of our edge stack. You write and optimize custom kernels and operators for specific hardware, collapse models onto device-specific execution units, and do the target-side quantization and assembly-level tuning that standard toolchains can't. You hand what you build up to Applied ML Engineers, who fit Deepgram models to your kernels. Your work is what makes a new hardware platform viable for Deepgram at all.