[Remote] Research Engineer, Machine Learning Systems

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text and text-to-speech. They are seeking a highly skilled Machine Learning Engineer to join their Research team, where you will partner with research scientists to prototype and validate novel modeling ideas for speech technologies.

Responsibilities

• Scalable Model Training: Architect and manage horizontally scalable systems that dramatically accelerate the end-to-end training lifecycle for Speech-to-Text (STT) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) models. This includes far more than automated training: the role focuses on making model development significantly faster and more efficient through optimized data preparation and management, high-throughput training pipelines, distributed infrastructure, and automated evaluation tooling
• Tooling & Accessibility: Design and implement internal UIs and tools that make ML systems and workflows accessible to non-technical stakeholders across the company. These UIs should be designed to provide transparency and flexibility to internally built tooling
• Infrastructure & Tools: Oversee and manage training tooling, job orchestration, experiment tracking, and data storage

Skills

• Strong experience with the machine learning research pipeline, particularly in STT or related speech domains. This includes experimenting with and evaluating new architectures and modeling approaches, and implementing large-scale training systems
• Proficiency with orchestration and infrastructure tools like Kubernetes, Docker, and Prefect
• Familiarity with ML lifecycle tools such as MLflow
• Experience building internal tools or dashboards for non-technical users
• Hands-on experience with data engineering practices for unstructured audio and text data
• Comfortable working in cross-functional teams that include researchers, engineers, and product stakeholders

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision benefits
• Annual wellness stipend
• Mental health support
• Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
• Unlimited PTO
• Generous paid parental leave
• Flexible schedule
• 12 Paid US company holidays
• Quarterly personal productivity stipend
• One-time stipend for home office upgrades
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Tax Savings Programs
• Learning / Education stipend
• Participation in talks and conferences
• Employee Resource Groups
• AI enablement workshops / sessions
• For candidates outside of the US, we use an Employer of Record model in many countries, which means benefits are administered locally and governed by country-specific regulations. Because of this, benefits will differ by region — in some cases international employees receive benefits US employees do not, and vice versa. As we scale, we will continue to evaluate where we can create more alignment, but a 1:1 global benefits structure is not always legally or operationally possible.

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