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Senior Data Scientist, Audio

Deepgram· Data
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Remote$178k - $220kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Data Scientist focused on conversational audio data at Deepgram, bridging research and data to understand data composition, characterize data, and drive model gains through scalable experiments and data-centric strategies.

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.

Qualifications

  • Hands-on work on real data pipelines and model-facing problems in data science, ML, or applied research
  • Strong Python and data tooling; comfort building analysis, scoring, and automation yourself
  • Experience with data characterization, data selection, active learning, or similar "what should we work on next" problems
  • Working familiarity with speech/audio or NLP models — you can reason about model output quality, confidence, and error modes
  • A track record of turning ambiguous, messy data situations into measurable model or product improvements
  • You build systems others run without you in the room — a reusable harness, not a one-off notebook
  • Strong communication skills, especially translating complex findings for audiences who don't share your background
  • An active AI-tool user. Not aspirational — tell us what you use and what you've built with it
  • Direct experience with ASR/TTS, audio data, or multilingual/code-switched data (preferred)
  • Experience with ensemble labeling, pseudo-labeling, or LLM-assisted annotation (preferred)
  • Familiarity with data provenance, PII/GDPR-aware pipelines, or model-improvement compliance (preferred)
  • Experience building custom or fine-tuned models for specific customers or domains (preferred)
  • Comfort working directly with research and engineering teams on shared infrastructure (preferred)

Skills

Required:PythonData characterizationActive learningSpeech/audio/NLP model familiarityCommunication
Last updated Oct 7, 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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