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Salary: USD 140,000 - 200,000 / annual
Speechify is a text-to-speech platform used by over 50 million people to convert PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, and websites into audio. The company was recently named Chrome Extension of the Year by Google and received Apple's 2025 Design Award for Inclusivity. With ~200 employees globally in a fully distributed setting, Speechify is building next-generation AI products centered on making reading accessible to all.
You will join Speechify's AI team as a Software Engineer focused on AI Data, responsible for building the data pipelines that power model training and next-generation AI products. The role involves discovering new audio data sources, building reliable ingestion pipelines, and optimizing large-scale data-processing systems for quality, throughput, and cost. You'll collaborate closely with AI Scientists to improve training datasets and support model development, taking ownership of engineering projects from discovery through implementation and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities include: discovering and integrating new audio data sources into training datasets; building and improving large-scale data-processing systems; collaborating with AI Scientists on dataset improvements; and owning engineering projects end-to-end in a distributed, asynchronous environment.
The company emphasizes autonomy, innovation, and the opportunity to work at the intersection of AI and audio technology. You'll be part of a team that includes former engineers from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and founders of successful companies, as well as researchers from top PhD programs.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend development fundamentals
- Proficiency in Python and Bash in Linux environments
- Experience building and operating production systems, ideally involving data pipelines or large-scale data processing
- Strong problem-solving skills, initiative, and ability to work independently in ambiguous environments
**Nice to Have:**
- Experience with web crawlers, data acquisition, or distributed data-processing systems
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (particularly GCP and Terraform)
- Familiarity with ML training data, dataset quality, or audio processing
