AI Engineer & Researcher, Inference - Chicago, USA
The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.
Speechify’s text-to-speech products help millions of people read faster, read more, and remember more across multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and Web. Speechify has a distributed workforce and a focus on delivering exceptional user experiences through collaboration among researchers, engineers, and product managers.
This is a key role for someone who thinks strategically, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is passionate about making product decisions and delivering great user experiences.
We are a flat organization that emphasizes leadership through excellent technical skills and consistent, fast results. Strong work ethic, clear communication, and a drive to win are paramount.
Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week.
What You’ll Do
Work alongside machine learning researchers, engineers, and product managers to bring our AI Voices to 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 to improve performance, latency, throughput, and efficiency of deployed models
Build tools to gain visibility into bottlenecks and instability, then design and implement solutions for high-priority issues
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
Experience shipping Python-based services
Experience operating a critical production service
Experience with public cloud environments, GCP preferred
Experience with infrastructure 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 an exceptional asynchronous work culture
The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences
Intersection of artificial intelligence and audio in a rapidly evolving tech domain
United States base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000-$200,000 + bonus + equity depending on experience
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