Data Infrastructure Engineer for Large-Scale AI Data

Speechify; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Impactful work

Job summary

Speechify is building data-driven AI to power its text-to-speech products used by millions. We seek a software engineer to own data collection and ingestion for model training, enabling petabyte-scale datasets with efficient infra and tooling.

You will collaborate with scientists and AI leadership to shape the dataset roadmap, optimize cost, throughput, and data quality, and contribute to both consumer and enterprise products in a rapidly growing, fully distributed team.

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

Strong communication

Multitasking

Adaptability

Collaboration with Scientists

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

GCP

Python

Bash

Job description

Speechify is building data-driven AI to power its text-to-speech products used by millions. We seek a software engineer to own data collection and ingestion for model training, enabling petabyte-scale datasets with efficient infra and tooling.

You will collaborate with scientists and AI leadership to shape the dataset roadmap, optimize cost, throughput, and data quality, and contribute to both consumer and enterprise products in a rapidly growing, fully distributed team.