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Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.\nToday, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting - Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google,\nleading PhD programs like Stanford, high-growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.\nOverview\nWe're looking for a Software Engineer - AI Data to join Speechify's AI team and build the data pipelines that power our model training and next-generation AI products.\nWe build high-quality datasets at petabyte scale and low cost by combining engineering, infrastructure, and research. 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