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Senior Backend Engineer, AI Inference (Python)


Overview


As Speechify expands, our AI team seeks a Staff Backend Engineer. This role is central to ensuring our infrastructure scales efficiently, optimizing key product flows, and constructing resilient end-to-end systems. If you are passionate about strategizing, enjoy high-paced environments, and are eager to take ownership of product decisions, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do
  • Work alongside machine learning researchers, engineers, and product managers to bring our AI Voices to their 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 the performance, latency, throughput, and efficiency of our deployed models.
  • Build tools to give us visibility into our bottlenecks and sources of instability and then design and implement solutions to address the highest priority issues.
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
  • 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 such as Code, Docker, and containerized deployments.
  • Preferred: Experience deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes.
  • Preferred: Experience deploying ML models to production

What We Offer

  • 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, ADD, and more.
  • An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain.

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