Defense / Edge Tech Lead

Deepgram
California
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 195,000 - 260,000 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership"]

Lead the technical direction for deploying Deepgram's speech models to edge and embedded environments, partnering with hardware vendors and defense customers to optimize, secure, and deploy production-ready AI on constrained devices across on-device, on-premises, and air-gapped options.

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Deepgram
Deepgram
3 months ago

Defense / Edge Tech Lead

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Job Summary

Lead the technical direction for deploying Deepgram's speech models to edge and embedded environments, partnering with hardware vendors and defense customers to optimize, secure, and deploy production-ready AI on constrained devices across on-device, on-premises, and air-gapped options.
Location: California
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the technical strategy for edge deployment of Deepgram's STT and TTS models, defining the architecture for on-device, on-premises, and air-gapped inference across diverse hardware targets.
  • •Optimize models for edge and embedded platforms, driving quantization, pruning, distillation, and runtime optimization to meet strict latency, memory, and power constraints.
  • •Partner with Qualcomm, Motorola, and other hardware vendors to ensure Deepgram models run efficiently on their chipsets, collaborating on SDK integration, performance benchmarking, and joint go-to-market.
  • •Support defense customer requirements through AWS NatSec partnerships, translating mission requirements into engineering deliverables and ensuring Deepgram's solutions meet the unique demands of government environments.
  • •Design and build edge runtime infrastructure, including model packaging, deployment pipelines, OTA update mechanisms, and telemetry for devices operating in low-connectivity or disconnected environments.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 195,000 - 260,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceVision401kEquityPaid LeaveParental LeaveRemote WorkLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in systems engineering, embedded computing, or edge AI deployment.
Experience:5+ yearsEdge computingDefenseHardwareEmbedded
Skills:CommunicationLeadership
Tech Stack:CC++RustONNX RuntimeTensorRTTFLiteQualcomm SNPEQNNMediaTek NeuroPilot

Company Brief

Deepgram
Deepgram builds a real-time Voice AI platform delivering speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice-agent APIs for developers and enterprises, focusing on low-latency, high-accuracy voice models and scalable deployment options.
Industry: API Platforms
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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