Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Acquisition - Tucson, AZ, USA

Speechify•Tucson, AZ

2d•$140,000 - $200,000•Remote

About The Position

Speechify is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join their Data team within the AI department. This role is crucial for all aspects of data collection, supporting model training operations. The team excels at building high-quality, petabyte-scale datasets cost-effectively through a close integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research. The engineer will be responsible for finding new audio data sources, managing cloud infrastructure for the ingestion pipeline (currently GCP and Terraform), and collaborating with scientists to improve data cost, throughput, and quality. They will also contribute to the AI Team's dataset roadmap to power Speechify's next-generation products.

Requirements

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)
Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Nice To Haves

Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus

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.