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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 combines talent from major tech companies (Amazon, Microsoft, Google), leading PhD programs (Stanford), and high-growth startups (Stripe, Vercel, Bolt).
You'll join the AI team to build data pipelines that power model training and next-generation AI products. The role focuses on discovering new audio data sources, building reliable ingestion pipelines, and creating large-scale data-processing systems optimized for quality, throughput, and cost. You'll collaborate closely with AI Scientists to improve training datasets and support the development of next-generation models, taking ownership of engineering projects from discovery through implementation and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities include:
- Discovering new sources of audio data and building reliable pipelines to integrate them into training datasets
- Building and improving large-scale data-processing systems with focus on data quality, throughput, and cost optimization
- Collaborating with AI Scientists to enhance training datasets and support model development
- Owning engineering projects end-to-end from problem discovery through implementation and iteration
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
