Senior Data Scientist, Data Flywheel

Overview

COMPANY OVERVIEW Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are ‘Powered by Deepgram’, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola,

What you'll do

• You'll care deeply about what makes conversational data difficult, you'll characterize it, and you'll shape the strategies that turn it into model gains.
• This role rewards conviction, creativity in approach, and a real appetite for overturning your own assumptions when the data says otherwise.
• This is a hands-on, high-leverage role with unusual latitude to define an area from first principles.
• It reports to the VP of Data Operations.
• We're looking for people who:
• See "we've always done it this way" as a starting position to argue with, not a constraint to work around
• Can find the one experiment that settles a question in days rather than months
• Are creative about where signal hides, in metadata, in model confidence, in the failures

Requirements

• Every team member who works at Deepgram is expected to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and even build your own into your everyday work.
• We measure how effectively AI is applied to deliver results, and consistent, creative use of the latest AI capabilities is key to success here.
• Candidates should be comfortable adopting new models and modes quickly, integrating AI into their workflows, and continuously pushing the boundaries of what these technologies can do.
• Additionally, we move at the pace of AI.
• Change is rapid, and you can expect your day-to-day work to evolve just as quickly.
• This may not be the right role if you’re not excited to experiment, adapt, think on your feet, and learn constantly, or if you’re seeking something highly prescriptive with a traditional 9-to-5.
• Deepgram is looking for a Data Scientist to sit at the intersection between research and data: people who think deeply about what conversational data is actually composed of, what makes data valuable, and how to best leverage that.
• Conversational audio presents incredibly rich scientific, engineering, and infrastructure challenges that are orders of magnitude harder than working with text.

Skills