At Deepgram, we spend every day tackling big, real-world challenges in speech. Our customers hire us to solve their hardest problems in speech, taking real, complex audio and transforming it into novel insights. And to raise the bar, everything we build needs scale in its DNA; we aren’t content with simple horizontal scaling: we intend to replace entire data centers dedicated to speech analytics with a single rack of servers. These challenges provide opportunities for creativity and innovative problem-solving every day. Deepgram’s Research Managers help guide the researcher team through the most exciting and difficult problems on the forefront of ASR and NLU technologies.
In this role, you will provide deep insight and experience to the research team, helping guide research and product direction and encouraging the team to dig into the real challenges facing scalable audio. You will be overseeing the build-out of data pipelines suitable for feeding large, distributed training jobs. You will also lead the identification and investigation of opportunities to improve our existing solutions as well as developing new capabilities, including research on the design and deployment of CNNs and RNNs, the development of new ASR and NLU training algorithms, and more.
You’ll have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs — and influence our product roadmap in turn. We look forward to you bringing your whole self to work, sharing learnings from your latest experiments, and collaborating with us to advance the state of speech technology.
What You’ll Do
- Understand the latest advances in deep learning and speech analytics, with a particular eye towards their implications and applications within our products.
- Brainstorm and collaborate with other members of the research team to define new research initiatives.
- Work closely with researchers to ensure that projects are on track and delivered to the customers in a timely manner.
- Challenge researchers to level up their critical thinking and communication skills.
- Work closely with product and leadership to define the next frontiers in speech understanding.
You’ll Love This Role If You
- Want to define the state-of-the-art in speech understanding and dominate the market.
- Enjoy applying deep learning and statistical learning techniques to ASR, NLP, NLU, conversational AI, and speech synthesis problems.
- Want to see your curiosity and enthusiasm for research transition into products in the hands of customers.
- Feel excited to drive a talented team through rapid cycles of iteration and experimentation.
- Remain steadfastly results-driven in the face of ambiguous problems and uncertain outcomes.
It’s Important To Us That You Have
- At least 5 years of research experience as an individual contributor and at least 2 years of experience as an research manager
- Familiarity with one or more of the popular deep learning frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, etc.
- Experience coding in PythonFamiliarity navigating UNIX-style systems.
- Ability to make data-driven decisions (including plots/visualizations) in order to rapidly iterate on model prototypes.
It Would Be Great if You Had
- Knowledge of C, C++, and/or Rust.
- Published papers in Deep Learning Research, particularly with neural networks
- Willingness to jump in and solve problems alongside your team
- Eagerness to get your hands dirty with real data