AI Data Engineer - Large-Scale Pipelines (Remote)

Speechify; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 27,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Competitive compensation

Asynchronous work culture

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer - AI Data to join its AI team and build data pipelines powering model training and AI products. The role focuses on petabyte-scale data handling, data quality, and scalable systems in a distributed environment.

You will collaborate with AI scientists, own projects end-to-end from discovery to deployment, and help advance speech-to-text research in a fast-growing company with a strong remote culture.

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong backend development fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash in Linux environments.
• Experience building and operating production systems, ideally involving data pipelines or large-scale data processing.
• Strong problem-solving skills, initiative, and the ability to work independently in ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Discover new sources of audio data and build reliable pipelines to bring them into our training datasets.
• Build and improve large-scale data-processing systems, optimizing for data quality, throughput, and cost.
• Collaborate closely with AI Scientists to improve training datasets and support the development of next-generation models.
• Take ownership of engineering projects from problem discovery through implementation and continuous improvement.

Skills

5+ years experience

Backend development

Problem solving

Independent work

Education

CS degree or related field

Tools

Python

Bash

Linux

Data pipelines

GCP

Terraform

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer - AI Data to join its AI team and build data pipelines powering model training and AI products. The role focuses on petabyte-scale data handling, data quality, and scalable systems in a distributed environment.

You will collaborate with AI scientists, own projects end-to-end from discovery to deployment, and help advance speech-to-text research in a fast-growing company with a strong remote culture.