Defense / Edge Tech Lead

📋 Description

• • As the Defense / Edge Tech Lead at Deepgram, you will own the technical direction for deploying speech AI models to edge and embedded environments, enabling real-time, low-latency inference on constrained hardware for defense and government customers.
• • You will lead model optimization efforts including quantization, pruning, and distillation; partner with hardware vendors like Qualcomm and Motorola; design secure edge runtime infrastructure; and collaborate with research teams to shape edge-friendly model architectures.
• • Deepgram is a leader in the Voice AI economy, powering over 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations with production-grade speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agent APIs, backed by $215M in funding and processing over 50,000 years of audio.
• • You will gain deep expertise at the intersection of AI and hardware, influence strategic partnerships in defense and edge computing, and ship impactful systems that operate in disconnected, power-constrained, and security-sensitive environments.