Sr. AI Engineer (Speech)
Dialpad · Bay Area, US
About this role
**Sr. AI Engineer (Speech)** **About Dialpad** Dialpad is the AI platform for customer experience, built to resolve customer problems in real time across voice and digital. Our AI agents learn from your best human agents and improve with every interaction, helping organizations understand their customers, deliver better experiences, increase operational efficiencies, and build a lasting competitive advantage. **Your Role** 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. This position reports to our Sr. Manager, AI Speech, and offers the opportunity to be based in our US or Canada Hub locations or work remotely. **What You'll Do** • Technical Leadership & Direction: Set technical direction for speech-model and decoder strategy • Speech Model Development: Lead research and implementation of ASR/STT and speech-enhancement models • Decoders & Real-Time Pipeline: Improve the speech pipeline end to end with focus on natural interactions and low latency • Research & Evaluation: Benchmark, prototype, and adapt models to create meaningful advantages • Production ML & Backend: Design and ship production-grade services for real-time speech • Cross-Functional Leadership & Mentorship: Partner across teams and mentor teammates **Skills You'll Bring** • 5+ years of experience in speech ML, speech recognition, speech enhancement, or related field • Strong Python programming and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch) • Deep understanding of modern ASR/STT architectures and decoding techniques • Track record of turning research into measurable product improvements • Experience building production-grade ML services in cloud environments • Senior technical leadership and cross-disciplinary communication skills **Compensation** California Salary Range: $224,500 – $256,000 USD **Why Join Dialpad** • Work at the center of the AI transformation in business communications • Build and ship agentic AI products that are redefining how companies operate • Join a team where AI amplifies every employee's impact
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