About the job
Speechify’s mission is to remove reading as a barrier to learning. More than 50 million people use our text-to-speech tools to turn PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, and web pages into audio. Our products span iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web, helping users read faster, absorb more, and remember better. Google named us Chrome Extension of the Year, and Apple awarded us the 2025 Design Award for Inclusivity.
Our fully distributed team includes nearly 200 people worldwide, frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and alumni from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and top universities like Stanford. We value collaboration and innovation, and we’re committed to building a place where careers thrive.
Role Overview
Speechify is hiring a Software Engineer for Data Infrastructure & Acquisition to join the AI team’s Data division in Basel, Switzerland. This role centers on building and maintaining the systems that collect and manage the massive datasets used to train our AI models. The work blends infrastructure, engineering, and research to create high-quality, petabyte-scale datasets efficiently and affordably.
What You Will Do
- Find and secure new audio data sources to strengthen our data ingestion pipeline.
- Manage and grow our cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), using Terraform for provisioning and configuration.
- Work closely with scientists to improve cost, throughput, and data quality, supporting richer model training.
- Partner with the AI team and company leadership to shape the dataset roadmap for upcoming consumer and enterprise products.
Location
This position is based in Basel, Switzerland.
