Deepgram
Director of Research, Text-to-Speech
$234K–$361K
USA - Remote +2 · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Location
- USA - Remote
San Francisco, CA
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About the job
Own Deepgram’s text-to-speech research program end to end, advancing speech-generation models and bringing measurable improvements into production while building and leading the research team.
What you'll do
- Set the TTS research and model roadmap; lead technical decisions, experiments, training, and evaluation.
- Advance speech-generation quality and performance, and translate research improvements into production models.
- Hire and develop researchers and technical leaders; coordinate across sub-teams and partner with engineering and product leadership.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in modern TTS, speech generation, or audio generative modeling, with a track record of personally training and improving large-scale neural models.
- Command of the modern speech-generation stack and its open problems, including naturalness, expressiveness, controllability, robustness, voice consistency, and inference cost.
- Experience setting research direction under uncertainty, including prioritizing experiments and allocating compute and researcher time.
- Experience leading researchers and research engineers through technical leaders while staying technically influential.
Nice to have
- TTS or generative-audio models deployed at meaningful production scale.
- Built or substantially scaled a high-performing AI research organization.
Pay
$234K – $361K (base salary; compensation type not specified)
AI focus
Lead TTS and speech-generation research, model training, evaluation, and production deployment; use AI as a default work mode and guide the team’s AI adoption.
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