Director, End-to-End TTS Research

Deepgram; San Francisco, Ann Arbor (CA, MI); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Deepgram in San Francisco seeks a Director of Research to own the Text-to-Speech program end to end—the research strategy, technical bets, and the models that ship. This hands-on leadership role sets direction, shapes architectures, experiments, training strategy, and evaluation, and builds the team and operating model for fast, high-quality delivery.

You will lead a mix of researchers and tech leads, drive neural audio modeling and multilingual speech initiatives, partner with engineering and

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in modern TTS or related speech generation.
• Experience guiding researchers and engineers through teams.
• Ability to translate research into production-ready systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the TTS research roadmap and production bets.
• Drive advances across neural audio modeling and multilingual speech.
• Lead researchers and tech leads to high technical bar.
• Partner with engineering and product on ship-readiness.

Skills

TTS expertise

Neural audio modeling

Leadership

Research strategy

Experimentation

Production deployment

Job description

Deepgram in San Francisco seeks a Director of Research to own the Text-to-Speech program end to end—the research strategy, technical bets, and the models that ship. This hands-on leadership role sets direction, shapes architectures, experiments, training strategy, and evaluation, and builds the team and operating model for fast, high-quality delivery.

You will lead a mix of researchers and tech leads, drive neural audio modeling and multilingual speech initiatives, partner with engineering and