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Salary: USD 140,000 - 200,000 / annual
Speechify is a 50M+ user text-to-speech platform that transforms reading into audio across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. The company was named Chrome Extension of the Year by Google and won Apple's 2025 Design Award for Inclusivity. With ~200 employees globally in a fully distributed setting, Speechify is building next-generation AI/ML models for accessibility.
You'll join the Data side of the AI team, owning all aspects of data collection to support model training operations. The team builds high-quality datasets at petabyte scale with tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research.
Key responsibilities:
- Source new audio data and integrate it into the ingestion pipeline
- Operate and extend cloud infrastructure (GCP, Terraform) for data ingestion
- Partner with research scientists to optimize the cost/throughput/quality frontier
- Collaborate with AI team and leadership on dataset roadmap for consumer and enterprise products
You'll need 5+ years of software development experience, proficiency with Python/bash in Linux, Docker, Infrastructure-as-Code, and GCP experience. Web crawlers and large-scale data processing experience is a plus. The role requires adaptability, strong communication, and comfort in a scrappy, fast-moving environment.
Speechify emphasizes hands-off management, asynchronous culture, and impact on accessibility for users with dyslexia, ADD, low vision, and other learning differences.
