AI Engineer & Researcher, Inference - Chicago

AI Engineer & Researcher, Inference - Chicago, USA

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Speechify’s text-to-speech products help millions of people read faster, read more, and remember more across multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and Web. Speechify has a distributed workforce and a focus on delivering exceptional user experiences through collaboration among researchers, engineers, and product managers.

This is a key role for someone who thinks strategically, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is passionate about making product decisions and delivering great user experiences.

We are a flat organization that emphasizes leadership through excellent technical skills and consistent, fast results. Strong work ethic, clear communication, and a drive to win 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 to improve performance, latency, throughput, and efficiency of deployed models
• Build tools to gain visibility into bottlenecks and instability, then design and implement solutions for high-priority issues

• Experience shipping Python-based services
• Experience operating 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 an exceptional asynchronous work culture
• The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences
• Intersection of artificial intelligence and audio in a rapidly evolving tech domain
• United States base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000-$200,000 + bonus + equity depending on experience

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply. Include links to your portfolio and Linked In.

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.

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