Deepgram is hiring a
Research Scientist

Summary

The job is for a Research Scientist at Deepgram, a foundational AI company focusing on voice technology. The role involves designing and carrying out experimental programs to build new speech and language AI foundation models, optimizing model architectures, documenting results, staying updated with deep learning advancements, and collaborating with the team.

Requirements

• Prior experience in designing and conducting experimental programs aimed at understanding complex phenomena
• Proven experience building models from a blank page and owning the entire deep learning stack including data curation, characterization and cleaning, architecture design and model building, distributed large-scale training, and model optimization for inference
• 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

Responsibilities

• Design and carry out experimental programs to build new speech and language AI foundation models across modalities and tasks
• Drive large-scale training jobs successfully on massive distributed computing infrastructure
• Optimize model architectures to make them as fast and memory-efficient as possible; deploy new models into production for use at massive scale
• Document and present results and complex technical concepts clearly for internal and external audiences
• Stay up to date with the latest advances in deep learning with a particular eye towards their implications and applications within our products