Senior Staff Research Scientist | Voice
DeepLMachine Translation company
London, United KingdomLead
IVP
Bessemer Venture Partners
Index Ventures
ICONIQ Growth
Atomico
Teachers' Venture Growth
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead scientific innovation in speech and translation models for real-time voice products.
- •DeepL is seeking a Senior Staff Research Scientist to lead scientific innovation in speech and translation models for real-time voice products.
- •This is a hands-on role focused on defining strategy, prototyping, and driving breakthroughs into production.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead research and development across ASR, MT, TTS, and speech-to-speech translation.
- •Design, train, and optimize large-scale ASR and TTS models for low-latency streaming.
- •Build and experiment with end-to-end and LLM-based speech-to-translation systems.
- •Own the full lifecycle of model delivery from prototyping to production deployment.
- •Mentor researchers and engineers, promoting collaboration and high model quality.
- •Requirements Deep expertise in speech, audio, or multilingual ML (ASR, MT, TTS, ST, large speech models).
- •Hands-on experience training models, running experiments, and integrating ML systems into production.
- •Strong understanding of real-time streaming constraints and low-latency model design.
- •Proven experience shipping and maintaining ML models at scale.
- •Ability to lead research efforts grounded in product impact and user experience.
Required skills
PythonPyTorchJAXLLMsComputer VisionNLP
Domain expertise
aiproductivity
Tech stack
PythonPyTorchJAXLLMs
