Mission
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.
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.
What You’ll Do:
- 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.
An Ideal Candidate Should Have:
- 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.
What We Offer
- 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
The France Based Salary range for this role is: 30,000-100,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience.
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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.
Skills Required
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong backend development fundamentals
- Proficiency in Python and Bash in Linux environments
- Experience building and operating production systems
- Strong problem-solving skills, initiative, and ability to work independently in ambiguous environments
- 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
What We Do
Speechify is a text-to-speech app that makes it easy for the world to access information. 10+ million people now use the Google Chrome extension and iOS and Android mobile apps. Our amazing users are students, professionals, and productivity lovers. Many of them have learning differences like dyslexia and ADHD, while many just want to read faster and listen on the go. With Speechify you can turn any book, document, or website into audio, and listen while you’re in the car, doing laundry, walking your dog, making dinner, working out, skydiving—whatever your daily routine is! Speechify also powers Medium, the Star Tribune, The Direct, and more. Easily add text-to-speech to your website. Cliff Weitzman, our fearless CEO, founded Speechify in 2017 in a dorm room at Brown University so he could share with others the incredible text-to-speech software he’d been working on. Cliff has dyslexia and he was frustrated with how much time and energy it took for him to read. Advanced TTS technology was a total gamechanger, it allowed him to finish his readings 3x faster than a normal reader and to better comprehend and retain information. At Speechify our goal is for reading to never be a barrier to learning for anyone. Nothing should hold you back from learning information quickly and effectively. Speechify has grown to employ over 100 team members spread out across the globe in just a few short years. We're proud of the incredible team with members who were previously leaders and senior engineers at companies like Snapchat, Apple, Spotify, Amazon & Uber. We all love and prioritise ownership, delivering value with speed, learning as much as we can and making our users feel empowered. Our Leadership Principles: https://bit.ly/3uxj4uO Check out open jobs here: https://careers.speechify.com/ Download our iOS app: https://apple.co/39batpR Try our free Chrome extension: https://bit.ly/3PW3L7X
