Speechify is a company dedicated to eliminating barriers to learning through its innovative text-to-speech products. The AI Engineer & Researcher role involves collaborating with machine learning researchers and engineers to enhance AI Voice offerings and improve the efficiency of deployed models.
Responsibilities
• 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
Skills
• 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.
• Experience deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes.
• Experience deploying ML models to production.
Benefits
• Competitive compensation
• A welcoming atmosphere
• 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
Company Overview
• Speechify is a mobile and desktop app that allows people with dyslexia and low vision to read out using text to speech voice. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in Miami, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://speechify.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
• Speechify has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 3 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
