Remote Data Infrastructure Engineer for AI Data Acquisition

Speechify; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Laid-back atmosphere

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is hiring for a Data-focused Software Engineer to own all aspects of data collection and dataset ingestions for model training. The role emphasizes building high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale by tightly coupling infrastructure, engineering, and research.

You will work with scientists to improve cost, throughput and data quality while ensuring scalable workflows in a cloud-first environment. The position offers competitive compensation and equity on a fully remote, 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 and large-scale data processing workflows is a plus.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

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

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Docker

Terraform / IaC

GCP

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Google Cloud (GCP)

Job description

Speechify is hiring for a Data-focused Software Engineer to own all aspects of data collection and dataset ingestions for model training. The role emphasizes building high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale by tightly coupling infrastructure, engineering, and research.

You will work with scientists to improve cost, throughput and data quality while ensuring scalable workflows in a cloud-first environment. The position offers competitive compensation and equity on a fully remote, distributed team.