# Director of Research, Text to Speech

Hiring organization: [Deepgram](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/deepgram)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/057a1a08-f8ee-453a-a7d3-814b143d92f3

Listed on Deepgram's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Director
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 213000 – 328300 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads Deepgram's text-to-speech research program from strategy through production, owning the technical roadmap and building a team of researchers to advance speech-generation quality. It suits experienced speech-synthesis researchers comfortable with hands-on technical leadership, fast-moving environments, and shipping models to production at scale.

_Our summary, not Deepgram's wording._

## Skills named

Machine Learning, Model Evaluation, Python

## Required

- Deep expertise in TTS, speech generation, or audio generative modeling with a track record of training large-scale neural models
- Command of modern speech-generation stack and open problems in naturalness, expressiveness, controllability, robustness, voice consistency, and inference cost
- History of setting research direction under uncertainty: prioritizing experiments, allocating compute and researcher time, and killing unsuccessful approaches
- Experience leading researchers and research engineers through technical leaders while remaining technically influential
- AI as default mode of work, not occasional tool, with a specific view of its limitations in speech research
- Ability to make complex technical tradeoffs legible to product, engineering, and executive audiences

## Nice to have

- TTS or generative-audio models deployed at production scale
- Built or substantially scaled a high-performing AI research organization
- Sophisticated evaluation systems for generative speech
- Recognized external contributions in speech synthesis, neural audio codecs, speech language models, or multimodal models
- Experience in fast-moving startup or research environments

Apply on Deepgram's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Deepgram/6e3344f4-48c7-4127-871c-3f1dada45323/application