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$213,000 – $328,300
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What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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