Senior ML Applied Research Scientist

Gong harnesses the power of AI to transform how revenue teams win. The Gong Revenue AI Operating System unifies data, insights, and workflows into a single, trusted system that observes, guides, and acts alongside the world’s most successful revenue teams. Powered by the Gong Revenue Graph, AI-powered intelligence, specialized agents, and trusted applications, Gong helps more than 5,000 companies around the world deeply understand their teams and customers, automate critical sales workflows, and close more deals with less effort. For more information, visit www.gong.io. At Gong, you will join a company built on innovative products, ambitious goals, and passionate people. We are shaping the future of revenue intelligence and we want people who are excited to build what comes next. You will work with a team that dreams big, moves fast, and cares deeply about the craft and about each other. Here, transparency and trust are core to how we operate, and every person has the opportunity to make a visible impact. If you want to grow, stretch, and do work that truly matters, Gong is the place to do the best work of your career. As a Senior ML Applied Research Scientist, you'll help shape the future of AI at Gong by developing and deploying cutting-edge technologies that power our products and drive our AI strategy forward. Working alongside researchers and engineers across Speech, NLP, Applied AI, and Infrastructure, you'll tackle complex real-world challenges using large-scale production data. This role combines hands-on research, strong engineering ownership, and the opportunity to work across multiple AI domains, including Speech, NLP, LLMs, and multimodal AI. You'll own: Building and improving Gong's AI capabilities across speech recognition, speaker diarization, language identification, conversational intelligence, and LLM-powered experiences. Evaluating, benchmarking, and integrating emerging AI technologies, models, and architectures into production-ready solutions. Driving end-to-end ownership of AI initiatives, from research and experimentation through deployment, optimization, and continuous improvement. You'll solve: Complex AI challenges involving real-time transcription, conversational intelligence, multimodal understanding, and large-scale production systems. Model performance, scalability, latency, and reliability challenges by applying advanced techniques such as fine-tuning, distillation, prompting, inference optimization, and data-centric improvements. You'll impact: The advancement of Gong's AI platform and future product capabilities, enabling customers to gain deeper insights and make better business decisions. The adoption of innovative AI technologies that improve product quality, accelerate development, and create measurable business value at scale. How you'll succeed here: You bring strong expertise in machine learning, applied research, and production-grade AI systems. You can quickly learn new domains, evaluate emerging technologies, and turn research ideas into practical solutions. You combine scientific curiosity with engineering rigor and enjoy solving challenging real-world problems. You thrive in collaborative environments and communicate effectively across research, engineering, and product teams. We operate in a flexible hybrid work model. What makes Research at Gong unique? Here at Gong, we trust and empower our employees with ownership to solve complex problems, make the right decisions, and build the best products that create radical impact. We call this "Own. Solve. Impact." For our Research team, this means taking ideas all the way from experimentation to production systems used by customers worldwide. Research at Gong is deeply connected to real-world impact, offering the opportunity to work across Speech, NLP, LLMs, conversational intelligence, and multimodal AI while solving meaningful business challenges with cutting-edge technologies. We encourage our employees to express their personality and identity (whether gender, ethnic, religious, or sexual), and we ensure fairness and equal opportunities. We follow a hybrid working model that combines working from home, on the go, or at the office. This allows us flexibility, autonomy, positive work relationships, and effective work habits. If these considerations are important to you when choosing a workplace, we'd love to see you with us. To review Gong's privacy policy, visit www.gong.io/privacy-policy for more details.