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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 combines talent from major tech companies (Amazon, Microsoft, Google), leading PhD programs (Stanford), and high-growth startups (Stripe, Vercel, Bolt).
You will join Speechify's AI team to build the data pipelines powering model training and next-generation AI products. The role focuses on 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 the development of next-generation models, taking ownership of engineering projects from discovery through implementation and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities include: discovering and integrating new audio data sources; 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 problem-solving and independent work in ambiguous environments.
The company emphasizes a dynamic, innovation-focused culture with autonomy, asynchronous work practices, and the opportunity to impact 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 (GCP, Terraform)
- Familiarity with ML training data, dataset quality, or audio processing
