# Sr. AI Engineer (Speech)

**Company**: Dialpad
**Location**: Bay Area, US
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $224,500-$256,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Sr. AI Engineer: Speech, you'll be a senior technical leader on our Speech Team, shaping the models and systems that make Dialpad's next-generation AI voice agents accurate, natural, responsive, and trustworthy.

You'll guide the team on state-of-the-art speech models, decoders, and evaluation approaches, while making hands-on contributions across speech recognition, enhancement, audio intelligence, and real-time inference.

Your responsibilities include:

- Setting technical direction for speech-model and decoder strategy

- Leading research, adaptation, and implementation of ASR/STT, speech-enhancement, and related audio models

- Improving the speech pipeline end to end, including decoding, endpointing, turn detection, streaming behavior, and the handoff between ASR, LLM, and TTS

- Benchmarking, prototyping, fine-tuning, distilling, or adapting models and algorithms

- Designing and shipping production-grade services and inference components for real-time speech

- Partnering with speech, NLP, telephony, platform, product, and infrastructure engineers to shape the roadmap and lead technical reviews

The ideal candidate will have:

- Strong Python programming skills and experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch

- 5+ years of experience in speech ML, speech recognition, speech enhancement, audio AI, or a closely related field

- Deep understanding of modern ASR/STT architectures and decoding techniques

- A track record of taking ideas from papers, experiments, or emerging models and turning them into measurable product improvements

- Experience building, deploying, and operating low-latency, production-grade ML or backend services in a cloud environment

- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, communicate clearly across disciplines, mentor engineers, and make pragmatic decisions

This role offers a target base salary range of $224,500-$256,000 USD.

Benefits include competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and real opportunities for growth.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- PyTorch
- speech ML
- ASR/STT
- speech recognition
- speech enhancement
- audio AI
- deep learning

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