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Salary: USD 140,000 - 200,000 / annual
Speechify is a text-to-speech platform used by over 50 million people globally to convert PDFs, books, Google Docs, articles, and websites into audio. The company was named Chrome Extension of the Year by Google and received Apple's 2025 Design Award for Inclusivity. With ~200 employees in a fully distributed setting, Speechify combines talent from major tech companies (Amazon, Microsoft, Google), leading researchers, and startup veterans.
You'll join the Data side of the AI team, responsible for all aspects of data collection to support model training operations. The team builds high-quality datasets at petabyte scale through 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, delivering richer datasets at scale and lower cost
- Collaborate with the AI team and leadership to shape the dataset roadmap for next-generation consumer and enterprise products
You bring 5+ years of software development experience, proficiency with Python/bash in Linux, hands-on Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code expertise (GCP preferred), and ideally experience with web crawlers and large-scale data processing. A BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field is expected. Strong communication and ability to juggle priorities in a fast-moving environment are essential.
