Senior Data Ingestion & Infrastructure Engineer

Speechify; Penang; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Fast-growing environment

Life-changing product

Impactful work

Job summary

Speechify is hiring for the Data side of our AI team to own data collection for model training. We build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through close infra-engineering-research collaboration. We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

We operate with a 100% distributed workforce and no corporate office. The role focuses on ingestion, cloud infra, and collaboration with scientists to advance our next-generation models and products.

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 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

bash/python scripting

cloud infrastructure

data collection

data processing

multitasking

communication skills

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related

Tools

GCP

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Speechify is hiring for the Data side of our AI team to own data collection for model training. We build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through close infra-engineering-research collaboration. We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

We operate with a 100% distributed workforce and no corporate office. The role focuses on ingestion, cloud infra, and collaboration with scientists to advance our next-generation models and products.