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Software Engineer, AI Data - Leeds, United Kingdom

Speechify - Remote - Remote - posted 2026-10-20

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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 recently won Chrome Extension of the Year (Google) and the 2025 Design Award for Inclusivity (Apple). With ~200 employees globally in a fully distributed setting, Speechify is building next-generation AI products for accessibility. You will join the AI team as a Software Engineer focused on AI Data, responsible for building and maintaining the data pipelines that power model training and next-generation AI products. The team works at petabyte scale, combining engineering, infrastructure, and research to create high-quality datasets efficiently and cost-effectively. 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 You will work in a dynamic environment that values innovation, intuition, and drive, with significant autonomy to focus and create. The role offers the opportunity to have meaningful impact at the intersection of AI and audio technology, while working on a product that changes lives for people 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, particularly GCP and Terraform - Familiarity with ML training data, dataset quality, or audio processing

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