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AI Engineer & Researcher, Inference - Boise, USA
full-timeBoise$140k - $200k

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Location

Boise

Salary

$140k - $200k

Type

full-time

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About this role

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 App of the Day.


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.


This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.


We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 


Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 


What You’ll Do


  • Work alongside machine learning researchers, engineers, and product managers to bring our AI Voices to their customers for a diverse range of use cases

  • Deploy and operate the core ML inference workloads for our AI Voices serving pipeline

  • Introduce new techniques, tools, and architecture that improve the performance, latency, throughput, and efficiency of our deployed models

  • Build tools to give us visibility into our bottlenecks and sources of instability and then design and implement solutions to address the highest priority issues


An Ideal Candidate Should Have


  • Experience shipping Python-based services

  • Experience being responsible for the successful operation of a critical production service

  • Experience with public cloud environments, GCP preferred

  • Experience with Infrastructure such as Code, Docker, and containerized deployments.

  • Preferred: Experience deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes.

  • Preferred: Experience deploying ML models to production


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 United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 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.

Other facts

Tech stack
Python,Machine Learning,Cloud Environments,GCP,Docker,Kubernetes,ML Models,Production Services,Infrastructure as Code,Deployment,Performance Optimization,Latency Improvement,Throughput,Efficiency,User Experience,Technical Skills

About Speechify

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 App of the Day.
Speechify also provides a voice over, voice cloning, and dubbing studio for businesses and creators and a text to speech API for developers. Through its products, Speechify is the largest provide of Speech AI in the world.

Cliff Weitzman founded Speechify to overcome his own dyslexia. Growing up, Cliff’s dad would read him Harry Potter because he couldn't do it himself. Cliff’s dad was his hero. But without reading, Cliff couldn't become the person he wanted to be. So, he learned to code and created Speechify to read books to himself.

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 Revolut, Stripe, and Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Programming languages across Speechify include React, Typescript, NodeJS, Kotlin, Python, and Go.
We’d love to meet you! Please apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/speechify.

Team size: 51-200 employees
Website: speechify.com
LinkedIn: Visit
Industry: Software Development
Founding Year: 2017

What you'll do

  • The role involves working with machine learning researchers and engineers to deploy and operate core ML inference workloads for AI Voices. Additionally, the candidate will introduce new techniques and tools to improve model performance and efficiency.

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