AI Engineer & Researcher, Inference - Champaign-Urbana,

AI Engineer & Researcher, Inference (Champaign-Urbana, USA)

Join Speechify as an AI Engineer & Researcher on the inference team.

Speechify’s mission is to make reading never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text‑to‑speech products—PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, and websites—to turn written content into audio, enabling them to read faster, read more, and remember more.

Speechify’s reading products include an iOS app, Android app, Mac app, Chrome extension, and web app. Google named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple its App of the Day.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work at Speechify in a 100% distributed setting. Our team includes frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and many professionals from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and other companies.

• Collaborate with machine learning researchers, engineers, and product managers to bring our AI Voices to customers for diverse use cases.
• Deploy and operate the core ML inference workloads for our AI Voices serving pipeline.
• Introduce new techniques, tools, and architecture to improve the performance, latency, throughput, and efficiency of deployed models.
• Build tools to provide visibility into bottlenecks and sources of instability, and design and implement solutions.

• Experience shipping Python‑based services.
• Experience responsible for the successful operation of a critical production service.
• Experience with public cloud environments, preferably GCP.
• 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 and focus to foster creativity.
• The opportunity to make a significant impact in a revolutionary industry.
• Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture.
• Work on a product that changes lives, especially for those with learning differences such as dyslexia, ADD, and more.
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio in a rapidly evolving tech domain.

• Entry level

• Full‑time

• Engineering and Information Technology

• Software Development

140,000 – 200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock (depending on experience).

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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