Senior Audio Data Scientist — Shape Voice AI

Deepgram; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Deepgram is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the AI-first data operations team. You’ll characterize data, design active-learning loops, and guide model improvements across multilingual speech data to improve quality and efficiency.

You’ll collaborate with research, engineering, and data partners, turning messy real-world data into measurable gains, building repeatable pipelines, and communicating insights clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Hands-on data pipelines and model-facing problems in data science or ML.
• Strong Python and data tooling; able to build analysis, scoring, and automation.
• Experience with data characterization, active learning, or similar problems.

Responsibilities

• Understand and characterize our data. Build the analysis that tells us what we actually have — languages, conditions, domains, speakers, quality — and what's underrepresented.
• Design and build active‑learning loops. Decide what’s worth working on next based on where it will move performance, and make that decision systematic rather than intuitive.
• Think deeply about how to best leverage humans in the loop. Human attention is the scarcest input in this system. Design the workflows, tooling, and model‑assisted steps that make it count.
• Make representative benchmarking possible. Build the curated datasets and methodology that let us make honest claims about model quality across the full diversity of real‑world speech.
• Change our minds about what data strategies actually work. Run the experiments that separate what works from what everyone assumes works.
• Care about data consistency, cleanliness, and organization — and about making data legible and accessible to non‑technical teams, not just to the people who built the pipelines.
• Bring method and automation to model adaptation. Turn one‑off, domain‑and‑customer‑specific model work into repeatable, documented pipelines.

Skills

Python

Data tooling

Active learning

Data characterization

NLP models

Model evaluation

Communication

Tools

Pandas

SQL

Jupyter

Job description

Deepgram is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the AI-first data operations team. You’ll characterize data, design active-learning loops, and guide model improvements across multilingual speech data to improve quality and efficiency.

You’ll collaborate with research, engineering, and data partners, turning messy real-world data into measurable gains, building repeatable pipelines, and communicating insights clearly to non-technical stakeholders.