Software Engineer, AI Data (AI)

Location: Remote; position based in Newcastle, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global develops text-to-speech products that convert written content into audio and serve more than 50 million users.

What you will do

• Discover new audio data sources 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 model development.
• Own engineering projects from problem discovery through implementation and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• A 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 and a focus on innovation, intuition, creativity, and independent contribution.
• Competitive compensation and a welcoming work environment.
• Work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio on a product designed to improve access to learning.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination.