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Research Staff, Data Science

Deepgram· Research
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Remote$150k - $220kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Seasoned Data Scientist role focused on building data pipelines, benchmarking, and experimentation to advance conversational audio and voice AI at scale. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to create an industrial data factory for next-generation speech and language foundation models.

Responsibilities

  • Drive high performance data acquisition, preparation and synthesis pipelines to generate data for the next generation of speech and language AI foundation models
  • Develop advanced characterizations of complex conversational audio utilizing a diverse toolkit of signals processing techniques and deep learning models
  • Collaborate with DataOps and Engineering to create automated systems which scale the ability of human annotators to label high value data and provide critical feedback on model outputs
  • Build advanced benchmarking methodologies and curated datasets for evaluating conversational voice systems
  • Document and present results of data experiments and analysis for internal and external audiences

Qualifications

  • Experience building data processing pipelines from a blank page and owning the entire data stack including data acquisition, characterization, cleaning, serving and transformation
  • Experience and expertise applying statistical methods and deep learning models to understand complex data
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to translate complex concepts in simple terms, depending on the target audience
  • Strong software engineering skills with particular emphasis on developing clean, modular code in Python and working with PyTorch

Skills

Required:Data pipeline developmentStatistical methods and deep learningCommunicationPython and PyTorchModeling and benchmarking
Nice to have:Speech/audio data familiarity

Benefits

  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Bonus
  • 10% Annual Bonus (base consideration notes)
  • Estimated Base Salary $150K – $220K
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Deepgram

Building foundational AI for speech transcription and understanding.

Deepgram is a foundational AI company on a mission to understand human language. We give any developer access to the most advanced speech AI transcription and understanding with just an API call. Our models deliver the fastest, most accurate transcription alongside contextual features like summarization, sentiment analysis, and topic detection. Beyond that, developers can: 🔊 Process live-streaming or pre-recorded audio 🌎 Transcribe in dozens of languages ⚙️ Train custom models for unique use cases 🔑 Access deep NLU with a unified API 💻 Build in any programming language with our SDKs ✅ Deploy on-prem or on DG’s managed cloud 📈 Get scalable GPU infra for training and inference Deepgram is a proud NVIDIA partner and Y Combinator company, and we recently completed a $72M Series B to define the future of AI Speech Understanding, making us the most-funded speech AI company at its stage.

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