Data Engineer, AI Data Pipelines & Ingestion

Speechify; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Distributed team

Impactful work

Job summary

Speechify is a data-focused role within the AI team, responsible for collecting data to support model training. You will help build petabyte-scale datasets through integrated infrastructure, engineering, and research collaboration.

The ideal candidate will push the ingestion pipeline on GCP/Terraform, collaborate with scientists to optimize cost, throughput, and data quality, and contribute to the roadmap for Speechify’s next-generation 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

Python

Bash scripting

Linux

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Job description

Speechify is a data-focused role within the AI team, responsible for collecting data to support model training. You will help build petabyte-scale datasets through integrated infrastructure, engineering, and research collaboration.

The ideal candidate will push the ingestion pipeline on GCP/Terraform, collaborate with scientists to optimize cost, throughput, and data quality, and contribute to the roadmap for Speechify’s next-generation products.