Data Infrastructure & Acquisition Engineer — Remote

speechify; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Fully distributed team

Impactful work with a life-changing AI

Job summary

Speechify is building data pipelines for cutting-edge model training. This role focuses on collecting and curating high-quality audio data at scale, bridging infrastructure, software engineering and research to fuel our next-generation models.

You will own ingestion pipelines on GCP managed with Terraform, collaborate with scientists and leadership, and help shape the dataset roadmap for Speechify’s consumer and enterprise products from a fully distributed team.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or 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).
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

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

Python

Bash scripting

Linux

Data ingestion pipelines

Strong communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

GCP

Job description

Speechify is building data pipelines for cutting-edge model training. This role focuses on collecting and curating high-quality audio data at scale, bridging infrastructure, software engineering and research to fuel our next-generation models.

You will own ingestion pipelines on GCP managed with Terraform, collaborate with scientists and leadership, and help shape the dataset roadmap for Speechify’s consumer and enterprise products from a fully distributed team.