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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 has ~200 employees globally in a fully distributed setting, with team members from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Stanford, and other leading organizations.
You'll join the 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 audio data sources, 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 new sources of audio data and building reliable pipelines to bring them into training datasets
- Building and improving large-scale data-processing systems, optimizing for data quality, throughput, and cost
- Collaborating closely with AI Scientists to improve training datasets and support next-generation model development
- Taking ownership of engineering projects from problem discovery through implementation and continuous improvement
The company emphasizes a dynamic, innovative environment with autonomy, asynchronous work culture, and the opportunity to work on products that change lives, particularly for 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, particularly GCP and Terraform
- Familiarity with ML training data, dataset quality, or audio processing
