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Software Engineer, AI Data - Ahmedabad, India
Speechify
IndiaremotePosted 1 day ago
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Key highlights
- Competitive compensation
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office
- The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
- Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.
- Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
Role overview
We're looking for a Software Engineer - AI Data to join Speechify's AI team and build the data pipelines that power our model training and next-generation AI products. We build high-quality datasets at petabyte scale and low cost by combining engineering, infrastructure, and research. We're looking for a strong software engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, exploring new data sources, and building systems that make AI training more efficient and scalable.
Responsibilities
- Discover new sources of audio data and build reliable pipelines to bring them into our training datasets.
- Build and improve large-scale data-processing systems, optimizing for data quality, throughput, and cost.
- Collaborate closely with AI Scientists to improve training datasets and support the development of next-generation models.
- Take ownership of engineering projects from problem discovery through implementation and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong backend development fundamentals.
- Proficiency in Python and Bash in Linux environments.
- Experience building and operating production systems, ideally involving data pipelines or large-scale data processing.
- Strong problem-solving skills, initiative, and the ability to work independently in ambiguous environments.
Nice to have
- Experience with web crawlers, data acquisition, or distributed data-processing systems.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code, particularly GCP and Terraform.
- Familiarity with ML training data, dataset quality, or audio processing.
Benefits
- A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
- A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
- Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
- The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
- Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
- The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
- An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain
Additional details
- The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.
- Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more.
- Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App.
- Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.
- Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office.
- These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high-growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.
- Think you’re a good fit for this job?
- Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply. And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.
- Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit?
- Refer them!
- Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
- Originally posted on Himalayas