Data Infrastructure Engineer for Scalable AI Data Pipelines

Speechify; Greensboro (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Equity

Asynchronous culture

Impactful work

Fast-growing environment

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer to join the data side of our AI team, focusing on data collection and ingestion to support model training at petabyte scale. You’ll work to build high-quality datasets using integrated infrastructure, engineering, and research efforts.

You will collaborate with scientists to optimize cost, throughput, and quality, extend cloud infrastructure on GCP with Terraform, and help shape the dataset roadmap for Speechify’s next-generation products for consumers

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

Cloud experience (GCP)

Web crawlers & data processing

Strong communication

Multi-tasking

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

GCP

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer to join the data side of our AI team, focusing on data collection and ingestion to support model training at petabyte scale. You’ll work to build high-quality datasets using integrated infrastructure, engineering, and research efforts.

You will collaborate with scientists to optimize cost, throughput, and quality, extend cloud infrastructure on GCP with Terraform, and help shape the dataset roadmap for Speechify’s next-generation products for consumers