Data Infrastructure Engineer — AI Data Pipelines

Speechify; Belfast City District; Remote; GBP 89,638 - 112,048; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Asynchronous culture

Life-changing product

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Data-focused Software Engineer to build and maintain data collection pipelines that support model training. You will source audio data, ingest it into scalable pipelines, and collaborate with researchers to improve data quality at scale for Speechify’s AI efforts.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software development experience, strong Bash/Python skills, Docker expertise, IaC practice, and hands-on GCP knowledge.

Qualifications

• 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 experience with GCP.
• Experience with web crawlers or large-scale data processing is a plus.
• 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

Bash

Python

Docker

IaC

GCP

Linux

Strong communication

Education

CS degree or PhD

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Data-focused Software Engineer to build and maintain data collection pipelines that support model training. You will source audio data, ingest it into scalable pipelines, and collaborate with researchers to improve data quality at scale for Speechify’s AI efforts.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software development experience, strong Bash/Python skills, Docker expertise, IaC practice, and hands-on GCP knowledge.