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

The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements
• Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability
• Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required)
• Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact
• Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
• Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes

What We Offer

• A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
• A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
• Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
• The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
• Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
• The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

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.

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 Design Verification 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 a Design Verification Student, you will be at the forefront of quality, learning how to ensure that the chips powering the world's largest AI clusters are bug-free and robust.
This isn't just about running tests - it’s an opportunity to learn advanced verification methodologies (UVM/SystemVerilog) alongside world-class engineers. You will support the development of sophisticated testbenches and help verify high-performance digital blocks that sit at the heart of AI infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in building and maintaining System Verilog/UVM-based testbenches, including monitors, checkers, and functional coverage models
• Run simulations, analyze failures, and work with the design team to debug and resolve RTL issues
• Help define and implement functional coverage and assertions to ensure all "corner cases" of the design are tested
• Utilize and improve scripting (Python/Tcl) to streamline verification flows and result reporting
• Partner with Design Engineers to understand block specifications and ensure the verification plan matches the design intent

Basic Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
• Ability to work at least 2 days a week at our Haifa/Tel Aviv center
• Strong understanding of Digital Logic and at least one programming language (C/C++ or Python)
• Basic familiarity with Verilog or SystemVerilog from academic projects or lab work
• A natural curiosity for "breaking things" and finding bugs, with a strong attention to detail
• Fluent in Hebrew and English with the ability to work effectively in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Completed courses in VLSI, Digital Systems, or Computer Architecture
• Proficiency in Python, Perl, or Tcl
• Any prior exposure to UVM/OVM or constrained-random verification is a major plus
• Basic understanding of protocols like PCIe, Ethernet, or DDR

Job Description

Astera labs is seeking a skilled and motivated Data Scientist. This individual will play a pivotal role in identifying key data points for collection, developing strategies to accumulate data and deriving actionable insights an anomaly based on a solid foundation of relevant know-how. Also, will also be responsible for creating, testing, and deploying scripts and methods for data collection and analysis to support decision-making. The Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify critical data sources to determine the most effective data collection strategies, will develop automated and scalable data collection pipelines, will ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency across all sources and may use AI techniques to refine the results toward failures predictions.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Advanced degrees in data science or Machine learning / AI - Advance.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, or MATLAB.
• Strong understanding of data manipulation and analysis tools (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, SQL).
• Understanding of high speed interfaces such as Ethernet, PCI-E , WiFi.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Matplotlib, Graphana.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills to identify patterns and outliers.
• Customer-obsession, Think and act with the customer in mind!
• Goal-driven, Self-motivated, be able to work independently and with teams with people around the globe.
• Entrepreneurial, open-minded behavior and can-do attitude.

Required Experience

• Experience with data manipulation and analysis tools (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, SQL).
• Machine learning and AI techniques and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, Scikit-learn).
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.

Preferred Experience

• Embedded Firmware development with C-language, scripting with Python or other equivalent programming languages.
• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) for data storage and processing.
• Familiarity with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark).
• Knowledge of engineering design tools and processes.

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.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

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.