Founding Deep Learning Deployment Engineer

## About the Role ## (Senior/Forward Deployment Engineer — Founding Team) ## Location On-site, Vijaynagar, Indore, MP, India (Preferred) or Remote ## Availability Immediate joiners or someone who can join us within 20-30 days ## Budget Upto 25 LPA CTC (Depending on skills & experience) ## About Us & This Role We're an early-stage company building a product around deep learning for audio and signal processing. The founding team comes from a research background and a management background, which means we have strong instincts about the product, the science, and the market, but we're explicitly looking for a technical co-founder who owns the engineering side of the company. There is no existing platform. No deployment pipeline. No SDK. No infrastructure. You will build all of it from scratch. This is a founding engineering role. You will not be inheriting a codebase or slotting into an existing team — you will be defining how this company ships software. The decisions you make in the first six months will shape the product for years. If you're the kind of engineer who finds that prospect exciting rather than terrifying, please keep reading. ## What You'll Be Doing ### Building the Product (Hands-On, Greenfield) - Take research models from our research team — typically Jupyter notebooks, PyTorch checkpoints, and unoptimized code — and turn them into clean, production-grade software. - Optimize models for inference using pruning, quantization, distillation, and graph optimization with ONNX, TensorRT, and Triton Inference Server. - Design and build our deployment pipeline from scratch — there is none today. You decide how it works. - Build our Python SDK — handle packaging, versioning, publishing to PyPI, and design the developer experience for whoever consumes it. - Stand up our cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar). You'll choose the cloud provider and the patterns we use. - Build local-deployment paths so smaller models run efficiently on CPU on Windows and macOS, with platform-specific optimizations. ### Helping Build the Company - Beyond writing code, you'll be helping us figure out: - What our engineering culture looks like — code review standards, testing philosophy, how we ship. - What to build vs. what to buy — every infrastructure choice has cost, complexity, and lock-in trade-offs we'll make together. - Who to hire next — you'll have a real voice in growing the engineering team, and eventually you may lead it. - How research and engineering collaborate — defining the handoff process between research and production. - The technical roadmap — the founders are honest about not knowing the production side. We need your judgment, not just your hands. You will not be a hired pair of hands executing a plan. You'll be a partner in figuring out what the plan should be. ## Technical Requirements We've kept this section detailed on purpose. Read each item honestly — if most of these describe work you've actually