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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 has ~200 employees globally in a fully distributed setting, with team members from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Stanford, and other leading organizations.
You will join Speechify's AI team to build the data pipelines that power model training and next-generation AI products. The role focuses on discovering and acquiring high-quality audio datasets at petabyte scale while optimizing for cost and efficiency. You'll work at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure, and AI research.
Key responsibilities:
- Discover new sources of audio data and build reliable pipelines to ingest them into training datasets
- Build and improve large-scale data-processing systems, optimizing for data quality, throughput, and cost
- Collaborate closely with AI Scientists to enhance training datasets and support next-generation model development
- Own engineering projects end-to-end, from problem discovery through implementation and continuous improvement
The team values innovation, autonomy, and asynchronous collaboration. You'll have significant impact on a product that serves millions, particularly those with learning differences like dyslexia and ADD.
**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 (GCP, Terraform)
- Familiarity with ML training data, dataset quality, or audio processing
