Director of Speech Research – ASR & End-to-End Speech AI

Director of Speech Research - ASR & End-to-End Speech AI

Redefine How the World Communicates with AI.

Location: Remote | United States

Employment: Full-Time | Research Leadership

What if your next breakthrough could fundamentally change how humans interact with intelligent machines?

We're partnering with a global AI technology innovator pushing the boundaries of speech recognition, conversational intelligence, and next-generation voice AI.

We're searching for an exceptional Director of Speech Research to lead groundbreaking research in automatic speech recognition (ASR), end-to-end speech architectures, and real-time voice intelligence.

This isn't about maintaining existing speech systems. It's about pioneering what comes next.

You’ll lead advanced research, tackle complex speech AI challenges, and shape technologies powering intelligent voice experiences at global scale.

• Pioneer Next-Generation Speech AI: Lead research into end-to-end ASR, streaming speech recognition, and advanced neural speech architectures.
• Push Architectural Boundaries: Drive innovation across Conformer, RNN-T, Transformer, CTC, and emerging speech models.
• Solve Complex AI Challenges: Advance multilingual recognition, speech embeddings, acoustic modeling, prosody, and speech-to-speech technologies.
• Redefine Real-Time Performance: Improve accuracy, latency, robustness, and efficiency in challenging, real-world environments.
• Shape the Future: Drive research strategy, influence architectural decisions, and translate breakthrough innovations into production-scale AI systems.
• Lead Exceptional Talent: Inspire and mentor world-class speech researchers while collaborating with advanced AI and engineering teams.

• Essential: Proven, hands-on experience architecting, developing, and training modern end-to-end ASR models.
• Deep expertise in speech recognition, neural networks, speech signal processing, and deep learning.
• Strong experience with Conformer, RNN-T, Transformer-based ASR, CTC, or comparable end-to-end architectures.
• Experience building streaming, real-time, or low-latency speech recognition systems.
• Strong knowledge of multilingual ASR, speech embeddings, acoustic modeling, and representation learning.
• Demonstrated success solving complex problems involving recognition accuracy, noise robustness, latency, and model efficiency.
• A track record of leading research initiatives, mentoring scientists, and shaping technical direction.

Highly Valued: Experience with speech foundation models, self-supervised learning, multimodal AI, speech-to-speech systems, or influential research publications.

Why This Opportunity?

Voice is becoming a defining interface for the next generation of AI. You'll help build the intelligence behind it.

This is a rare opportunity to combine ambitious research, meaningful technical leadership, and global impact — advancing speech technologies that make human-machine interaction more natural, intuitive, and intelligent.

If you’ve built cutting-edge end-to-end speech recognition systems and are ready to push the boundaries of what’s possible, we want to hear from you.

The future of voice AI is being built. Help lead it.