Data Infrastructure Engineer for AI Data Acquisition

Speechify; New Haven (CT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-growing environment

Entrepreneurial-minded team

Hands-off management

Impact in AI and audio

Competitive salaries and equity

Asynchronous culture

Life-changing product

Job summary

Speechify is hiring for its data-focused software engineer role within a fully distributed team. You will own data collection strategies to support model training, building high-quality datasets at scale with a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software development, strong scripting in Bash and Python, and hands-on experience with Docker, Terraform, and GCP.

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/Python scripting

Infra-as-Code

Web crawlers

Large-scale data processing

Multitasking

Strong communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

GCP

Infrastructure-as-Code

Job description

Speechify is hiring for its data-focused software engineer role within a fully distributed team. You will own data collection strategies to support model training, building high-quality datasets at scale with a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software development, strong scripting in Bash and Python, and hands-on experience with Docker, Terraform, and GCP.