Software Engineer - Data & AI England, United Kingdom

As a Software Engineer - Data & AI, at Speechmatics, you’ll design and manage the data pipelines that power our state-of-the-art speech models. You'll be working at the intersection of infrastructure, engineering, and research to create large-scale, high-quality datasets efficiently. If you love solving complex technical problems and optimising systems for real-world AI applications, this is the role for you.

• Develop and maintain scalable web scraping solutions to extract data from multiple sources
• Design, implement and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and storage of large datasets for high-performance AI models.
• Ensure data quality and integrity through validation, cleaning, and normalisation processes.
• Manage data infrastructure, including databases, and cloud storage solutions.
• Optimise performance of scraping scripts and pipelines for speed, reliability, and scalability.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data workflows for reliability and efficiency.
• Identify new opportunities to source or generate relevant datasets.
• Stay compliant with data privacy and security regulations when handling sensitive or proprietary data.
• Collaborate closely with our ML Engineers to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the ML team and Speechmatics leadership to craft the roadmap for our data work to power excellence in voice AI.

• Extensive industry experience in software/data engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Hands‑on experience with web scraping, crawlers and awareness of the latest web frameworks, and protocols to improve scraping efficiency
• Professional experience with a major cloud provider.
• Knowledge of data pipelines, ETL (extract, transform, load) processes.
• Exposure to data for machine learning.
• Familiarity with data compliance standards and privacy-preserving data methods.
• Experience with on‑prem infrastructure.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not feel you match all of the requirements exactly. The list of requirements is intended to show the kinds of experience and qualities we’re looking for, but it is not exhaustive. If you are interested in the role, the team, and our mission, we would love to consider your application. We are always open to conversations and look forward to hearing from you.

Speechmatics is the leading expert in Speech Intelligence, and uses AI and Machine Learning to unlock business value in human speech worldwide. We work with an amazing mix of global companies, and our technology can integrate into our customers stack irrespective of their industry or use case – making it the go-to solution to harness useful information from speech.

Joining us means working with some of the smartest minds around the world, focused on cutting‑edge projects and deploying the latest techniques to disrupt the market. We believe in putting people first; we’ll do all we can to help you develop your skills and give you the tools you need to thrive. Our Focus Fridays give you an undisturbed day of focus, offset with Together Tuesdays when we have our team meetings, so you've always got the right balance.

We have structured a hybrid approach that includes 2‑3 designated office days each week. This arrangement ensures that while we embrace the advantages of remote work, we also maintain the vital connection and synergy that only in‑person interactions can foster.

This is only the beginning; we’re looking for amazing people like you to continue our journey…

No matter what stage of your career you’re at – from paid internships and first‑job opportunities through to management and senior positions – we’ll support you with the training and development needed to reach your career aspirations with us. There really is no shortage of opportunities here for you to get involved and collaborate with those around you to deliver your best work.

We offer incredibly flexible working, regular company lunches, and birthday celebrations. But that’s not all. We’ve spoken to our teams to find out…