Data Infrastructure Engineer for Scalable AI Datasets

Speechify; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity

Asynchronous culture

Impactful product

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Data Engineer to strengthen the AI data pipeline and own data collection, ingestion, and collaboration with scientists to scale petabyte-scale datasets in a cloud-first, distributed environment on GCP.

This role offers a fast-growing team, equity, and bonus potential, with a hands-off management style and the opportunity to impact millions of learners who rely on Speechify to read and learn more effectively.

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

Docker

Cloud (GCP)

Data processing

Communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

GCP

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Data Engineer to strengthen the AI data pipeline and own data collection, ingestion, and collaboration with scientists to scale petabyte-scale datasets in a cloud-first, distributed environment on GCP.

This role offers a fast-growing team, equity, and bonus potential, with a hands-off management style and the opportunity to impact millions of learners who rely on Speechify to read and learn more effectively.