Director of Research, Text to Speech

🕒 August 22

🏄 California, Michigan – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $213k - $328.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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Deepgram

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 $47M Series B on 2022-11

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Deepgram is a leading voice AI company that provides powerful APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and language understanding applications. Their platform enables developers to build sophisticated voice AI solutions for use cases such as contact centers, medical transcription, conversational AI, and more. Known for unmatched accuracy, speed, and cost-effectiveness, Deepgram's technology is trusted by top enterprises and startups worldwide. By offering real-time and highly accurate transcription capabilities, Deepgram helps businesses gain insights from voice data, making it an essential tool for transforming voice interactions.

📋 Description

• Own the TTS research and model roadmap, selecting technical directions that can materially improve speech-generation quality • Drive advances in neural audio modeling, prosody and expressiveness, controllability, multilingual speech, voice identity and consistency, data and training strategy, post-training, and inference performance • Ensure research advances become measurable production gains • Review research, challenge assumptions, design experiments, diagnose model failures, and solve high-leverage technical problems • Build evaluation and benchmarking combining automated metrics with human perceptual assessment • Lead individual contributors and tech lead managers • Hire and develop researchers and technical leaders, maintain a high technical bar, and set direction across sub-teams • Partner with engineering and product leadership on ship-readiness • Represent Deepgram’s TTS research internally and externally • Build the team and operating model for fast, high-quality research execution

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise in modern TTS, speech generation, or audio generative modeling • Track record of personally training and improving large-scale neural models • Command of the modern speech-generation stack and open problems in naturalness, expressiveness, controllability, robustness, voice consistency, and inference cost • Experience setting research direction under uncertainty, prioritizing experiments, allocating compute and researcher time, and ending ineffective approaches • Experience leading researchers and research engineers through other technical leaders, including developing tech lead managers or equivalent • AI as a default mode of work, with experience rebuilding workflows around AI and a specific view of its limitations in speech research • Ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs to product, engineering, and executive audiences • TTS or generative-audio models deployed at meaningful production scale • Experience building or substantially scaling a high-performing AI research organization • Experience with evaluation systems for generative speech, expressive or multilingual generation, voice cloning and adaptation, or controllable generation • Recognized external contributions such as publications, open source, patents, or invited talks • Experience in fast-moving startup or research environments taking models from idea to production • Must be legally authorized to work in the country where the role is located • Must address visa sponsorship requirements in the application

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Bonus • Remote work arrangement • AI Notetaker interview recording and transcription, with the option to opt out without impact on candidacy