213K–328K USD / year
Director, Text-to-Speech Synthesis Research
AIRemote — USA
Published on 2026-09-17
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About this role
The Director will lead the Text-to-Speech research program, taking ownership of the strategy and technical direction while building a high-performing team. The role requires hands-on leadership in advancing speech generation technology and turning research advancements into production models.
About the company
Deepgram builds speech-to-text and voice AI APIs that convert audio into text and power voice applications for developers and enterprises.
The team
Research
What you'll do
- Own the TTS research and model roadmap.
- Drive advances in speech generation quality.
- Stay deeply technical: review research and design experiments.
- Build evaluation and benchmarking systems.
- Lead a mix of individual contributors and tech leads.
What we're looking for
- Deep expertise in modern TTS and speech generation.
- Command of the speech-generation stack and its challenges.
- History of setting research direction under uncertainty.
- Experience leading researchers through technical leaders.
- AI as a default mode of work.
Nice to have
- TTS or generative-audio models deployed at production scale.
- Experience building AI research organizations.
- Sophisticated evaluation systems for generative speech.
- Recognition through publications or patents in related fields.