Data Infra Engineer for Scalable AI Data Pipelines

Speechify; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Friendly and laid-back atmosphere

Asynchronous culture

Opportunity to impact a life-changing

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer for the Data side of our AI team. The role focuses on data collection to support model training, building high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale with tight infrastructure integration, and advancing ingestion pipelines.

You will work with scientists to optimize cost, throughput, and quality, and help shape the dataset roadmap for Speechify’s consumer and enterprise products. This position is fully remote, with collaboration across global teams.

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 (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

Web crawlers

Large-scale data processing

Docker

Terraform / IaC

GCP

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

GCP

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer for the Data side of our AI team. The role focuses on data collection to support model training, building high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale with tight infrastructure integration, and advancing ingestion pipelines.

You will work with scientists to optimize cost, throughput, and quality, and help shape the dataset roadmap for Speechify’s consumer and enterprise products. This position is fully remote, with collaboration across global teams.