AI Data Engineer: Build Scalable Training Datasets

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 65,000; Full time

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Job summary

Speechify, a distributed AI-driven software company, is hiring a Software Engineer - AI Data to build data pipelines powering model training and next-generation AI products. You will shape high-quality datasets at scale while collaborating with AI scientists and engineers.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in backend software engineering, strong Python/Bash in Linux, and experience with data pipelines, cloud infrastructure (GCP), Terraform, and ML data quality.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 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.
• Experience with web crawlers, data acquisition, or distributed data-processing systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code, particularly GCP and Terraform.
• Familiarity with ML training data, dataset quality, or audio processing.

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

Python

Bash

Linux

Data pipelines

Large-scale data processing

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Web crawlers

ML training data

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GCP

Terraform

Job description

Speechify, a distributed AI-driven software company, is hiring a Software Engineer - AI Data to build data pipelines powering model training and next-generation AI products. You will shape high-quality datasets at scale while collaborating with AI scientists and engineers.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in backend software engineering, strong Python/Bash in Linux, and experience with data pipelines, cloud infrastructure (GCP), Terraform, and ML data quality.