Software Engineer, AI Data (Python)

Location: Remote; Italy-based role associated with Bologna, Italy

Salary: 30,000–80,000 USD per year plus bonus and stock, depending on experience

Company

hirify.global develops text-to-speech products that convert PDFs, books, documents, articles, websites, and other reading materials into audio for more than 50 million users.

What you will do

• Discover new sources of audio data and build reliable pipelines to integrate them into AI 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 model development.
• 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 setting with an asynchronous work culture.
• Autonomy and a focus on innovation, intuition, creativity, and initiative.
• Opportunity to work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.
• Competitive compensation with bonus and stock.
• Work on a product designed to improve accessibility for people with learning differences, including dyslexia and ADD.