Director, TTS Research & Production Architect

Deepgram; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Deepgram is seeking a Director of Research to own our Text-to-Speech program end to end: the research strategy, the technical bets, and the models that ship. This is a hands-on leadership role where you set direction and stay in the details, shaping architectures, experiments, training strategy, and evaluation.

You’ll build the team and operating model that let exceptional researchers move fast without lowering the bar.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in modern TTS, speech generation, or audio generative modeling.
• Command of the modern speech-generation stack and open problems behind naturalness, expressiveness, controllability, robustness, and inference cost.
• History of setting research direction under uncertainty: prioritizing experiments and allocating compute and researcher time.

Responsibilities

• Own the TTS research and model roadmap and decide which directions move speech-generation quality.
• Drive advances across neural audio modeling, prosody, multilingual speech, and production-ready inference performance.
• Stay deeply technical: review research, design experiments, diagnose failures, and tackle high-leverage problems.
• Build evaluation and benchmarking that explains improvements with automated metrics and perceptual assessment.
• Lead a team of researchers and tech leads, hire and develop leaders, and set direction across sub-teams.

Skills

TTS expertise

Speech generation

Neural models

Leadership

Experimentation

Job description

Deepgram is seeking a Director of Research to own our Text-to-Speech program end to end: the research strategy, the technical bets, and the models that ship. This is a hands-on leadership role where you set direction and stay in the details, shaping architectures, experiments, training strategy, and evaluation.

You’ll build the team and operating model that let exceptional researchers move fast without lowering the bar.