Data Infrastructure Engineer - AI Data Acquisition

Speechify; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-growing environment

Entrepreneurial team

Flexible management

Asynchronous culture

Impactful work

Job summary

Speechify, a fully distributed company with no office, is hiring a Software Engineer to own data collection for model training. You will source audio data, feed pipelines, and work with scientists to optimize throughput, quality, and cost for large-scale datasets powering next-gen models.

The role emphasizes Linux, Bash/Python, Docker, and GCP, with opportunities to impact consumer and enterprise products and to contribute to a globally-reaching data strategy.

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

Bash scripting

Python

Linux environments

Cloud familiarity

Communication skills

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

GCP

Data ingestion pipelines

Job description

Speechify, a fully distributed company with no office, is hiring a Software Engineer to own data collection for model training. You will source audio data, feed pipelines, and work with scientists to optimize throughput, quality, and cost for large-scale datasets powering next-gen models.

The role emphasizes Linux, Bash/Python, Docker, and GCP, with opportunities to impact consumer and enterprise products and to contribute to a globally-reaching data strategy.