Remote Data Infrastructure & Acquisition Engineer

Speechify; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Bonus and equity

Asynchronous culture

Distributed team

Job summary

Speechify is hiring for its Data side of the AI team. You will own data collection and ingestions to support model training, building high-quality datasets at petabyte scale, and collaborating with scientists to optimize cost and throughput.

You will extend cloud infrastructure (GCP, Terraform) and work with AI researchers and leadership to roadmap data initiatives powering Speechify’s next-generation products.

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

Bash/Python scripting

Strong communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Cloud (GCP)

Job description

Speechify is hiring for its Data side of the AI team. You will own data collection and ingestions to support model training, building high-quality datasets at petabyte scale, and collaborating with scientists to optimize cost and throughput.

You will extend cloud infrastructure (GCP, Terraform) and work with AI researchers and leadership to roadmap data initiatives powering Speechify’s next-generation products.