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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 focused on making reading accessible to everyone.
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 sources of audio data, building reliable pipelines to integrate them into training datasets, 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 the development of next-generation models, taking ownership of engineering projects from problem discovery through implementation and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities include: discovering and sourcing new audio data; building and improving large-scale data-processing systems; collaborating with AI Scientists on dataset improvements; and owning projects end-to-end with a focus on solving complex problems and exploring new data sources.
The company emphasizes a dynamic environment where contributions shape products, values innovation and drive, and fosters autonomy and creativity. You'll work on a product that directly impacts people with learning differences like dyslexia and ADD, operating at the intersection of AI and audio technology.
**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
