Software Engineer, AI Data (Cardiff, United Kingdom)

Location: Remote; the position is associated with Cardiff, United Kingdom.

Company

hirify.global develops text-to-speech products that convert content such as PDFs, books, documents, articles, and websites into audio, serving more than 50 million users through iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome Extension, and Web applications.

What you will do

• Discover new audio data sources and build reliable pipelines for incorporating them into training datasets.
• Build and improve large-scale data-processing systems optimized for data quality, throughput, and cost.
• Collaborate with AI Scientists to improve training datasets and support next-generation 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 no office and an asynchronous work culture.
• Autonomy that supports focus and creativity.
• An environment emphasizing innovation, intuition, drive, and significant product impact.
• Work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio on products intended to improve accessibility for people with learning differences.
• Competitive compensation and a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive workplace.