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title: 'Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Acquisition - Vienna, Austria at Speechify'
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# Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Acquisition - Vienna, Austria at Speechify

- **Company:** Speechify
- **Location:** Vienna, Austria
- **Posted:** 2025-12-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/speechify/jobs/5975258004

## Job description

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. 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.

Today, 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, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

## Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

## What You’ll Do

- Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
- Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
- Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
- Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
- Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
- Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
- Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

## What we offer

- A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
- An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
- A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
- An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
- Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
- Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
- Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
- Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

The Austria Based Salary range for this role is: 30,000-100,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience.

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

## About Speechify

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Speechify is a voice AI productivity assistant that removes barriers to learning and productivity by enabling users to read, write, research, and create through speech.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first; no physical office (100% distributed team)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Cliff Weitzman

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Voice AI, Productivity Software, Accessibility Technology
- **Target customers**: B2C (students, professionals, individuals with reading disabilities like dyslexia) and B2B (enterprises, creators, developers via API)
- **Mission**: “Make sure reading is never a barrier to learning” and “remove barriers to learning and productivity through its Voice AI Assistant”

## Products & Services
- **Text to Speech (Core)**: Reads aloud any text – PDFs, books, articles, docs – at up to 4.5x speed with 1,000+ AI voices. Available as Chrome Extension, mobile apps (iOS, Android), and desktop (Windows).
- **Voice Typing**: Dictate text in any app up to 5× faster than typing.
- **AI Meeting Note Taker**: Records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings and conversations.
- **AI Podcasts**: Creates AI-generated podcasts from any document or description.
- **Voice AI Assistant**: Conversational assistant that answers questions, researches topics, and performs tasks via voice.
- **Speechify API**: Text-to-speech API for developers.
- **Speechify Voice Over / Dubbing Studio**: Business and creator tool for voice-over, voice cloning, and dubbing.
- **AI Workspace**: Voice-first productivity environment for docs, research, and workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 60 million users (as of mid-2025); 1M+ 5-star reviews; 500k+ 5-star reviews (Chrome store)
- **Total Funding**: Multiple seed rounds (first in 2017, later rounds in 2020); investor names not publicly listed
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Growth Signals**: Employee count grew 15.7% year-over-year to ~134 (LinkedIn), with 2,115 active job postings; expanded from text-to-speech into a full Voice AI platform; won 2025 Apple Design Award and Chrome Extension of the Year

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary SIMBA Voice Models**: In-house family of voice models (SIMBA 3.0) optimized for natural prosody, low-latency conversation, and long-form listening – not reliant on third-party APIs.
- **Full-Stack AI Company**: Builds and trains its own voice AI, including a Frontier AI Lab, enabling tight integration across all features.
- **Massive User Base**: 60M+ users across nearly 200 countries, strong brand recognition in accessibility and productivity.
- **Award-Winning Design**: Apple Design Award 2025, Chrome Extension of the Year.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion into Voice AI Assistant**: Evolving from a read-aloud tool to a comprehensive voice-native productivity platform competing with dominant AI assistants.
- **Continued Investment in SIMBA Models**: Improving naturalness, multilingual support (60+ languages), and enterprise-grade speech.
- **Scaling the Team**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, AI, product, and go-to-market roles globally.

## Why Work Here
- **100% Remote**: No office – work from anywhere, design your own schedule.
- **Culture of Ownership**: “Extreme ownership” with no micromanagement; everyone is a builder, leaders stay hands-on.
- **High Performance & Autonomy**: Flat organization, fast decision-making, and a focus on impact over process.
- **Fast Interview Process**: Aims to complete technical interviews within one week.
- **Diverse Global Team**: ~200 people from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, Revolut, Stripe; representing 30+ countries.
- **Meaningful Mission**: Build technology that removes barriers to learning and accessibility for millions.

## Sources
1. [speechify.com (careers)](https://speechify.com/careers/)
2. [speechify.com (main)](https://speechify.com/)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/speechify)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/speechifyinc)
5. [speechify.com (press release)](https://speechify.com/news/speechify-expands-voice-ai-assistant-text-to-speech/)

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