AI Engineer & Researcher, Inference
SpeechifyRaleigh, North Carolina, United States • Durham, North Carolina, United States
Posted September 23, 2025
140000 - 200000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Speechify is a global leader in text-to-speech technology, offering iOS and Android apps, Mac App, Chrome Extension, Web App, voice-over services, and a text-to-speech API. Founded by Cliff Weitzman to overcome his dyslexia, Speechify enables over 50 million users to read faster, remember more, and remove barriers to learning. The company employs nearly 200 distributed professionals from top tech companies and institutions, focusing on React, TypeScript, NodeJS, Kotlin, Python, and Go.
Job Description
Speechify is seeking an AI Engineer & Researcher to contribute to their AI Voice, a text-to-speech product aimed at making reading accessible to millions of users. They are a rapidly growing company with a distributed team and are looking for someone with a strategic mindset and experience building user-friendly products. This role involves deploying and operating AI Inference workloads, innovating new techniques, and improving model performance.
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Welcoming atmosphere
- Exceptional asynchronous work culture
- Active role at the intersection of AI and audio
- Commitment to an exceptional work culture