Audio Engineer

DeepgramRemote - California, United States$120k – $175k1w ago

Remote Intern NA Artificial Intelligence Audio Engineer Python E-learning Development Data Quality

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Requirements

Professional audio engineering experience (studio, podcast, radio, live sound, or equivalent).
Deep understanding of EQ, compression, limiting, de-essing, and mastering techniques.
Strong familiarity with professional audio tools (Adobe Audition, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, or similar).
Hands-on experience with FFmpeg and command-line audio processing tools.
Solid understanding of microphone characteristics, placement, and acoustic principles.
A highly trained ear for subtle audio quality differences across voices and environments.
IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAD
Programming ability (Python preferred) to automate and scale audio workflows.
Experience building custom audio plugins or DSP tools.
Open-source contributions to audio or signal-processing projects.
Background in batch or programmatic audio processing at scale.
Familiarity with ML audio preprocessing for ASR or TTS.
Experience managing large-scale audio datasets.
Comfort working in creative/audio communities and technical open-source ecosystems.

Responsibilities

Deepgram is looking for an Audio Engineer to own and scale audio quality across our voice AI products. This role sits at the intersection of professional audio engineering and machine-learning infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring our voices don’t just sound “correct,” but sound genuinely great to human listeners, across thousands of voices, recording conditions, and use cases.
This is a foundational role. You’ll help define how audio engineering fits into our end-to-end pipeline: from on-site voice actor recording, to speaker-specific cleanup for fine-tuning, to synthetic data generation, and large-scale TTS training. You’ll take traditionally manual, GUI-driven audio workflows and turn them into scalable, programmatic systems that can operate at Deepgram’s scale.
Identify and correct audio artifacts, loudness inconsistencies, frequency imbalances, and sibilance issues across large-scale voice datasets.
Design and implement scalable audio processing pipelines for voice data
Define and implement scalable audio processing pipelines (EQ, compression, de-essing, dynamic range optimization) and normalization strategies across inter- and intra- voice recordings.
Optimize audio quality across real and synthetic voices to ensure a consistent product experience across multiple use cases.
Lead audio quality decisions during on-site voice actor recording sessions, including microphone selection, placement, gain staging, and environment setup.
Define, document, and enforce audio quality standards for external vendors, including recording setup requirements, signal characteristics, and post-processing expectations, ensuring vendor-produced audio meets Deepgram’s training and product needs even when recordings are not done on-site.
Convert expert-driven, manual audio workflows into automated, repeatable, code-based systems.
Collaborate closely with research to improve training data quality, especially TTS speaker-specific fine-tuning.
Contribute to synthetic data pipelines by defining and validating acoustic characteristics, guiding how different “sound profiles” should be produced and evaluated.
YOU’LL LOVE THIS ROLE IF YOU
Instinctively hear volume, EQ, and dynamic differences that others miss.
Obsess over why one voice sounds more pleasing than another—even when both are “natural.”
Are equally comfortable tweaking a signal chain in Logic Pro and implementing it in FFmpeg or Python.
Enjoy scaling handcrafted quality decisions to thousands of recordings.
Lose sleep over missed opportunities to improve audio quality or training data diversity.
Think ahead about how today’s recording choices enable tomorrow’s models.

Benefits

Base Salary Range $120K – $175K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • 10% Annual Bonus
This range is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills and experience. There may be instances where a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description. Please note that the compensation details listed on US role postings reflect the base salary only and does not include bonus, equity or benefits.
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