Remote Data Infrastructure Engineer for AI Pipelines

Speechify; Chattanooga (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Equity

Distributed/remote team

Job summary

Speechify is hiring a data-focused Software Engineer to join its AI team. You will own data collection and ingestion pipelines to support model training, building high-quality datasets at scale with tight infra-engineering collaboration.

The role emphasizes Python, Bash, Linux, Docker, and GCP expertise. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software development experience, strong problem-solving, and the ability to work across a distributed, fast-growing 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, 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

Python

Bash scripting

Linux

Web crawlers

Data processing

Communication skills

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

GCP

Cloud IaC

Job description

Speechify is hiring a data-focused Software Engineer to join its AI team. You will own data collection and ingestion pipelines to support model training, building high-quality datasets at scale with tight infra-engineering collaboration.

The role emphasizes Python, Bash, Linux, Docker, and GCP expertise. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software development experience, strong problem-solving, and the ability to work across a distributed, fast-growing team.