Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Speechify develops text-to-speech products that help people overcome barriers to reading, serving more than 50 million users across multiple platforms. The Software Engineer will support AI model training by sourcing audio data, operating large-scale ingestion infrastructure, and collaborating with scientists and leadership on dataset strategy and next-generation products.
Responsibilities
- Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
- Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform
- Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models
- Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products
Skills
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field
- 5+ years of industry experience in software development
- Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
- Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
Benefits
- A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
- An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
- A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
- An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
- Bonus
- Equity
- Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
- Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
- Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.
- 100% distributed setting
- Asynchronous culture
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