Software Engineer, AI Data - Baltimore, MD, USA

Location: Remote; role associated with Baltimore, MD, USA

United States base salary: $140,000–$200,000 per year, plus bonus and equity depending on experience

Company

hirify.global develops text-to-speech products that convert written content into audio, including iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome Extension, and Web applications.

What you will do

• Discover new sources of audio data and build reliable pipelines that 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 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 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 company office.
• Autonomy and a work environment that values innovation, intuition, drive, focus, and creativity.
• Opportunity to influence products and work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.
• Competitive compensation with bonus and equity.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity and supporting people with learning differences.