Data Infrastructure Engineer: Ingest and Scale ML Data

Speechify; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

100% distributed team

Competitive salaries

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed team, is hiring for a Data-side Software Engineer to own data collection for model training. You’ll build high-quality datasets at scale by coordinating infrastructure, engineering, and research efforts.

You’ll ingest audio data sources, extend GCP-based pipelines with Terraform, and collaborate with scientists to improve cost, throughput, and data quality for next-generation products and enterprise offerings.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or 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

5+ years of software development

Bash/Python scripting

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

GCP experience

Web crawlers / large-scale data

Strong communication skills

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Speechify, a distributed team, is hiring for a Data-side Software Engineer to own data collection for model training. You’ll build high-quality datasets at scale by coordinating infrastructure, engineering, and research efforts.

You’ll ingest audio data sources, extend GCP-based pipelines with Terraform, and collaborate with scientists to improve cost, throughput, and data quality for next-generation products and enterprise offerings.