AI Engineer & Researcher, Inference - Boise

Overview

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. Speechify’s text-to-speech products help users turn reading material into audio to read faster, read more, and remember more. Our products include iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome Extension, and Web App offerings. Speechify has been recognized by Google and Apple for its Chrome Extension of the Year and App of the Day, respectively.

We operate in a 100% distributed setting with a global team. This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users. We are a flat organization where leadership can come from anyone who demonstrates excellent technical skills and consistent, fast results.

Work ethic, solid communication skills, and an obsession with winning are paramount.

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

• 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 architecture that improve performance, latency, throughput, and efficiency of our deployed models
• Build tools to gain visibility into bottlenecks and instability, and design and implement solutions to address high-priority issues

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

• 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 and ADD
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio
• United States base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000-$200,000 + bonus + equity 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.