AI Engineer & Researcher, Inference - Pittsburgh, USA

Position Overview

Speechify is on a mission to ensure that reading is never a barrier to learning. With over 50 million users benefiting from our text-to-speech products across multiple platforms, we are committed to delivering innovative audio solutions. In this key role, you’ll work in a fast-paced, 100% distributed environment alongside top talent from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. This position is ideal for someone who thinks strategically, is passionate about product decisions, and excels at building delightful user experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Work alongside machine learning researchers, engineers, and product managers to bring our AI Voices to 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 architectures that improve the performance, latency, throughput, and efficiency of our deployed models.
• Build tools to gain visibility into bottlenecks and sources of instability, then design and implement solutions for high-priority issues.

Required Qualifications

• 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 as Code, Docker, and containerized deployments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes.
• Experience deploying ML models to production.

Benefits & Perks

• A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products.
• A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive.
• Autonomy that fosters 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, especially for those with learning differences like dyslexia and ADD.
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio—a rapidly evolving tech domain.
• Compensation: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience.