Remote Data Infrastructure Engineer for Data Acquisition

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Asynchronous culture

Distributed team

Impactful work

Hands-off management

Job summary

Speechify is hiring a Data-focused Software Engineer to join the AI team, focusing on data collection and ingestion pipelines for model training. You will build high-quality datasets at scale by tightly integrating infrastructure, engineering, and research work.

Collaborate with data scientists to improve throughput and quality, extend cloud infrastructure on GCP, and shape the dataset roadmap for future consumer and enterprise products.

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 scripting

Strong communication

Multi-tasking

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

GCP

Linux environments

Job description

Speechify is hiring a Data-focused Software Engineer to join the AI team, focusing on data collection and ingestion pipelines for model training. You will build high-quality datasets at scale by tightly integrating infrastructure, engineering, and research work.

Collaborate with data scientists to improve throughput and quality, extend cloud infrastructure on GCP, and shape the dataset roadmap for future consumer and enterprise products.