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Director of AI Research

Mountain View, CAFull-time$244k2026-10-26 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid

Core

Lead research and development across automatic speech recognition (ASR), speaker identification (SID), large language models (LLMs), and audio language models to shape AI capabilities and product direction.

Role type

Director of AI Research (hands-on leadership)

Builds

Production AI systems for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration

Domain

AI Research, Speech Technologies, Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Speech technologies, LLMs, transformer architectures, reinforcement learning, multimodal model training, large-scale ML system design, distributed training, inference optimization, Python, PyTorch, Kubernetes

Preferred skills

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Technologies

PyTorch, Kubernetes, Django, FastAPI, WebSockets

Responsibilities

Define and execute research roadmap, guide model lifecycle from data prep to deployment, hire and mentor AI research team, scale training and inference, translate research into products, shape AI platform infrastructure, identify new AI opportunities

Seniority

Director, hands-on leadership