Role Overview

Astera Labs is establishing a strategic R&D center in Israel to drive the development of complex semiconductor chips that solve the critical 'data bottlenecks' enabling the future of AI at scale. As we expand our presence in Israel, we're seeking a visionary ASIC Design Student to help build our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to take on meaningful product ownership in a new site, designing complex solutions that sit at the heart of our most ambitious connectivity projects.

As an ASIC Design Student, you won't just build chips—you will be part of a team defining the next generation of AI infrastructure main components. The complex digital blocks under your micro-architecture and implementation responsibilities will power the world's largest AI clusters. You will own the journey from high-level definition through RTL implementation and backend support, transforming complex logic challenges into elegant, high-performance hardware. If you thrive on solving unnamed challenges in deep-submicron processes and want to shape the digital design foundation for AI infrastructure connectivity, this is your opportunity.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the development of micro-architecture, RTL coding, and debugging for complex digital blocks
• Utilize industry-leading EDA tools (Lint, CDC, Synthesis) to ensure designs are robust and power-efficient
• Work closely with the verification team to run simulations, analyze results, and ensure design quality
• Interact with Architecture and Backend teams to understand the full chip development lifecycle
• Help leverage AI-based automation tools to optimize engineering workflows

Basic Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
• Strong academic record with a focus on Digital Logic Design and VLSI
• Ability to work at least 2 days per week at our Haifa/Tel Aviv center
• Solid understanding of logic design principles and hardware description languages (Verilog or SystemVerilog)
• A "can-do" attitude with a passion for solving complex technical challenges
• Fluent in Hebrew and English with the ability to work effectively in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with FPGA projects or university-level tape-out projects
• Proficiency in Python, Perl, or Bash for automation
• Completed courses in Computer Architecture, Synthesis, or Static Timing Analysis (STA)
• Basic familiarity with high-speed protocols like PCIe or DDR

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.

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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.

We’re looking for an IoT Embedded Linux engineer to design, build, and own the software stack that powers our edge devices in the field. You’ll craft resilient Linux-based systems (from bootloader to application), ensure secure and reliable connectivity to the cloud, and work closely with hardware, manufacturing, and backend teams to deliver production-ready devices at scale.

A Day In Your Life 

• Own the embedded Linux platform: BSP, kernel configuration, device tree, bootloaders (e.g., U-Boot), systemd services, and startup/upgrade flows.
• Develop user-space applications using object-oriented principles (C++/Go/Rust/Similar) to implement core device logic and features, leveraging available libraries and frameworks.
• Build production images using Yocto or Buildroot, manage layers/recipes, and maintain reproducible builds for multiple hardware variants.
• Implement secure OTA updates (e.g., Mender, RAUC, SWUpdate), with A/B partitions, rollback, and signing—targeting zero‑touch fleet upgrades.
• Harden devices for security: filesystem permissions, sandboxing (e.g., AppArmor/SELinux), secure boot/TPM, key management, CVE tracking, and update policies.
• Deliver robust connectivity: Ethernet/Wi‑Fi/Cellular (LTE), BLE gateway roles, MQTT/HTTPS, VPN/WireGuard; optimize reliability, roaming, and reconnection logic.
• Instrument and debug in the field: journald, core dumps, remote shell, metrics/health checks; trace with strace/perf/tcpdump and diagnose with Wireshark.
• Collaborate across disciplines: work with HW, manufacturing, QA, backend, and product to define requirements, provisioning flows, and factory test automation.
• Raise the bar on quality: CI/CD for cross‑compilation, unit/integration tests, static analysis, reproducible builds, and fleet-safe release practices.

What you bring

• 3–5 years of Embedded Linux experience shipping devices to production at scale.

• Strong proficiency in object-oriented programming (OOP) principles and multi-threading experience, with hands-on skills in C/C++/GO/Rust/Similar in user space (some kernel familiarity) and scripting (Bash, Python); expertise with build systems (CMake/Make, BitBake).
• Hands-on with Buildroot or Yocto Project (preferably Buildroot), including custom layers, recipes, and SDKs.
• Solid understanding of Linux kernel basics, device trees, drivers/BSP integration, bootloaders (U‑Boot), and systemd service design.
• Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DHCP/DNS, TLS, MQTT/HTTPS, VPN; experience with Wi‑Fi/cellular modules and AT command stacks is a plus.
• Proven experience with OTA frameworks, partitioning strategies, and rollback-safe update flows.
• Git fluency and experience with CI (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar) for cross builds and test automation.
• BSc in EE/CE/CS (or equivalent practical experience).

Nice to have

• Device security: secure boot, TPM, disk encryption, SBOM/CVE remediation workflows.
• Real-time and performance: PREEMPT_RT, scheduling, latency tuning, power management.
• Edge packaging: containers (Docker/Podman) on ARM, OCI/CRUN, rootless strategies.
• Cloud & IoT: AWS IoT/Azure IoT, device identity/provisioning, fleet management tooling.
• Language breadth: Go or Rust for system services; protobuf/gRPC.
• Manufacturing flows: factory provisioning, E2E traceability, and end-of-line testing.

Perks

• Stock options
• Paid parental leave
• Flex PTO