Senior Data Ingestion Engineer for AI Pipelines

Speechify; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Growth opportunities

Impactful work

Job summary

Speechify is expanding its data-focused AI team and seeking a Software Engineer to own all aspects of data collection for model training. You will build high-quality datasets at scale by integrating infrastructure, engineering, and research work in a distributed, fully remote environment.

You will collaborate with scientists and leaders to optimize data cost, throughput, and quality, while extending the ingestion pipeline on GCP using Terraform and IaC practices.

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 scripting

Python scripting

Cloud computing

GCP

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Web crawlers

Large-scale data processing

Strong communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Speechify is expanding its data-focused AI team and seeking a Software Engineer to own all aspects of data collection for model training. You will build high-quality datasets at scale by integrating infrastructure, engineering, and research work in a distributed, fully remote environment.

You will collaborate with scientists and leaders to optimize data cost, throughput, and quality, while extending the ingestion pipeline on GCP using Terraform and IaC practices.