Otter.ai
Director of AI Research
$244K–$313K
Mountain View, CA · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering or AI research and development experience, including 4+ years managing technical teams.
- Education
- Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
About the job
Leads AI research and development for conversation and meeting products, turning advances in speech and language models into reliable, scalable product capabilities.
What you'll do
- Set the research roadmap and guide the model lifecycle, from data preparation and training through evaluation and deployment.
- Hire, mentor, and lead the AI research team; improve training and inference performance, infrastructure, and experimentation practices.
- Translate research advances into products in partnership with Product, Engineering, and Data teams.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software engineering or AI research and development experience, including 4+ years managing technical teams.
- Track record of leading AI research with scientific and product impact, supported by publications and deployed systems.
- Deep expertise in speech technologies and LLMs, with hands-on experience in transformer architectures, reinforcement learning, and multimodal model training.
- Experience with large-scale ML systems, distributed training and GPU inference; proficiency in Python and PyTorch, and experience with Kubernetes.
Nice to have
- PhD.
- Familiarity with Django, FastAPI, and WebSockets.
Pay
$244,000 to $313,000 USD per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Django, FastAPI, WebSockets
AI focus
Research and develop automatic speech recognition, speaker identification, LLMs, and audio language models; lead model training, evaluation, optimization, and deployment.
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