Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Acquisition - College Park, MD, USA

Speechify is a company focused on making reading accessible to everyone through innovative text-to-speech products. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their Data team to support model training operations by managing data collection and infrastructure integration. The role involves collaborating with scientists and leadership to enhance data quality and scalability for next-generation AI models.

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)
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus