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Deepgram Research Scientist Interview Questions

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Machine LearningStart here. 8 questions · ~77 min
Active Speaker Detection ChangesHard

Build a low-latency classifier and temporal smoother to detect speech-state changes in streaming audio.

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ASR and ML FundamentalsHard

Explain core ASR architectures, decoding, evaluation metrics, and practical machine learning tradeoffs.

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Coding3 questions · ~29 min
Distributed Training with PyTorch DDPHard
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Construct a deterministic PyTorch DDP training plan with ranks, backend selection, batching, checkpointing, and cleanup.

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Variable-Length Audio Data LoadingHard
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Group variable-length ASR samples into efficiently padded PyTorch-style batches using length sorting and a padding-ratio constraint.

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NLP3 questions · ~29 min
CTC Loss and AlignmentHard

Explain CTC loss, blank tokens, path collapsing, and forward-backward alignment for end-to-end speech recognition.

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MFCCs vs Log-Mel SpectrogramsMedium

Tests your feature engineering intuition and your ability to justify modern audio representations.

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Behavioral & Leadership5 questions · ~48 min
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More topics3 questions · ~29 min
Self-Attention Mechanics and ScalingHard

Explain QKV self-attention, tensor dimensions, and why attention scales quadratically with sequence length.

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Noise and Reverberation RobustnessHard

Design a Deepgram acoustic model that preserves transcription accuracy under severe noise and reverberation at production latency.

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