Software Engineer, AI Data (AI)

Location: Remote; Finland-based role associated with Tampere, Finland

Salary: $30,000–$100,000 USD/year plus bonus and stock, depending on experience

Company

hirify.global develops text-to-speech products that convert written content into audio to make reading more accessible and support learning.

What you will do

• Discover new sources of audio data and build reliable pipelines for training datasets.
• Build and improve large-scale data-processing systems, optimizing data quality, throughput, and cost.
• Collaborate with AI Scientists to improve training datasets and support next-generation AI models.
• Own engineering projects from problem discovery through implementation and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend development fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash in Linux environments.
• Experience building and operating production systems, ideally involving data pipelines or large-scale data processing.
• Strong problem-solving skills, initiative, and the ability to work independently in ambiguous environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with web crawlers, data acquisition, or distributed data-processing systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code, particularly GCP and Terraform.
• Familiarity with ML training data, dataset quality, or audio processing.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a 100% distributed, asynchronous environment with no office.
• Autonomy to support focus and creativity.
• Opportunity to shape products and work at the intersection of AI and audio.
• Competitive compensation with bonus and stock.
• Work on products intended to support people with learning differences such as dyslexia and ADD.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity.

Hiring process

• Submit information about your background and interest in the role.
• Include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.