Speech Data Engineer

AIPHORIA • Austin, TX

6d • Remote

About The Position

The Speech Data Engineer is a key specialist bridging the data market with our technological needs. You will be responsible for identifying unique data sources, evaluating their quality, and building strong relationships with data providers.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with speech data processing and labeling tools, such as VAD, Pyannote, whisper, and other segmentation or diarization frameworks.
• Familiarity with quality assessment metrics, including SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) and other acoustic analysis indicators.
• Collect, process, and curate speech datasets, including audio recordings, transcripts, and metadata for multilingual ASR and TTS applications.
• Work closely with internal ASR/TTS development teams to align dataset specifications with model training needs.
• Label and validate audio data, ensuring transcription accuracy, speaker diversity, and consistent metadata standards.

Responsibilities

• Collect and prepare speech datasets (ASR/TTS) across multiple languages when customer data is unavailable.
• Process raw audio data, including speech segmentation, speaker separation, and basic preprocessing.
• Run speech recognition and pseudo-labeling, and collaborate with crowdsourcing/labeling platforms to improve data quality.
• Understand and apply differences between ASR data (noisy, real-world speech) and TTS data (clean, high-quality recordings).
• Organize, version, and maintain speech datasets, ensuring teams always know what data exists and where it lives.
• Support existing data infrastructure and pipelines (e.g. DVC).
• Work with external data providers, evaluating dataset quality and contributing to make-vs-buy decisions.

Benefits

• Experienced team, Aiphoria is formed by a team of enthusiastic professionals who created award-winning devices, voice assistants and other AI-driven products for BigTech corporations.
• Cutting-edge technologies, we build a technology using our areas of expertise including Computer Vision, Speech Technologies, Natural Language Understanding, Generative AI incl. LLM and Diffusion models.
• Rapid career progression, facilitated by our team of seasoned senior professionals who hail from prestigious, industry-leading companies.
• Remote work opportunities.
• Company has prominent clients with an opportunity for you to work on different projects and/or to be involved in developing our proprietary own products.
• Competitive compensation surpassing market standards.
• A company with entrepreneurial spirit. We offer a unique mix of a secure workspace thanks to the big clients raised along with a true start-up culture

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed