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NST (UTC -3:30)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.