Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Acquisition - New Orleans, LA, USA

Speechify is a company dedicated to making reading accessible for everyone, with over 50 million users benefiting from their text-to-speech products. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their Data team, responsible for data collection to support model training operations, and for building high-quality datasets at scale. The ideal candidate will work closely with scientists and leadership to enhance the AI team's dataset roadmap for next-generation products.

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

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)
• 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