Data Infrastructure & Acquisition Engineer (Remote)

Speechify; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Opportunity to make a big impact

Life-changing product

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed, 100% remote company, is hiring a Software Engineer for the Data side of its AI team. You will own data collection and ingestion pipelines to support model training, building high-quality datasets at scale and balancing cost, throughput, and quality with engineers and researchers.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software development, strong Bash/Python, Docker, and GCP experience, plus exposure to large-scale data and web crawlers.

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 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

Strong communication skills

Ability to handle multiple tasks

Proficiency with bash/Python scripting

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Google Cloud (GCP)

Job description

Speechify, a distributed, 100% remote company, is hiring a Software Engineer for the Data side of its AI team. You will own data collection and ingestion pipelines to support model training, building high-quality datasets at scale and balancing cost, throughput, and quality with engineers and researchers.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software development, strong Bash/Python, Docker, and GCP experience, plus exposure to large-scale data and web crawlers.