Senior Data Scientist, Audio

What You'll Own

• 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.Senior

• 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.

What We're Looking For

• 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

It would be great if you also had

• Direct experience with ASR/TTS, audio data, or multilingual/code-switched data.

• Experience with ensemble labeling, pseudo-labeling, or LLM-assisted annotation.

• Familiarity with data provenance, PII/GDPR-aware pipelines, or model-improvement compliance.

• Experience building custom or fine-tuned models for specific customers or domains.

• Comfort working directly with research and engineering teams on shared infrastructure.

Backed by prominent investors including Y Combinator, Madrona, Tiger Global, Wing VC and NVIDIA, Deepgram has raised over $215M in total funding. If you're looking to work on cutting-edge technology and make a significant impact in the AI industry, we'd love to hear from you!

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