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Salary: USD 140,000 - 200,000 / annual
Speechify is a 50M+ user text-to-speech platform that transforms reading materials (PDFs, books, Google Docs, articles, websites) into audio. The company has won Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple's 2025 Design Award for Inclusivity. With ~200 employees globally in a fully distributed setting, Speechify is building next-generation AI 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 through tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research.
Key responsibilities:
- Source and integrate new audio data streams 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 on dataset roadmap strategy for next-generation consumer and enterprise products
You bring 5+ years of software development experience, strong proficiency in Python/bash scripting and Linux environments, hands-on experience with Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code (GCP preferred), and ideally background with web crawlers and large-scale data processing. You're scrappy, adaptable to shifting priorities, and communicate clearly.
Speechify offers competitive salary ($140K–$200K base + bonus + equity), a fast-growing environment, entrepreneurial culture, hands-off management, and the chance to impact millions of users with accessibility-focused products.
