Hiring: Director of Research, Text to Speech Company: Deepgram Location: Ann Arbor, MI Job Posted Time: 2026-09-13 10:13:06 Target Skills & Keywords : Cloudflare, Twilio About the job Experience: •000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram. Required Skills: •The mandate is broad: advance the state of the art in speech generation, and turn those advances into models in production. •Own the TTS research and model roadmap — decide which technical directions can materially move speech-generation quality, including the expensive and non-obvious ones, and recognize when an approach should change or die. •Drive advances across neural audio modeling, prosody and expressiveness, controllability, multilingual speech, voice identity and consistency, data and training strategy, post-training, and inference performance — and make sure they land as measurable production gains. •Stay deeply technical: review research, challenge assumptions, design experiments, diagnose model failures, and take on the highest-leverage problems yourself. •Build evaluation and benchmarking that explains why models improve, not just whether they did — automated metrics alongside human perceptual assessment. •Lead a mix of individual contributors and tech lead managers. Hire and develop both, hold an exceptionally high technical bar, grow senior researchers into technical leaders, and set direction across sub-teams while pushing decisions down to the people closest to the work. •Partner with engineering and product leadership on ship-readiness, and represent Deepgram's TTS research internally and externally. •You'll Love This Role If You Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!