Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
• Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform) 
  • Prior experience with GCP is a plus

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 United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 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.

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!

At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful. 

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

Below you can find more information about the teams we're hiring for:

DevX AI Team

The DevX AI team empowers engineers at Duolingo to be more effective by introducing AI-infused tools that simplify workflows and reduce friction and toil. As a Software Engineer II on the team, you’ll contribute to building and improving AI-driven developer tools used across Duolingo’s engineering organization. You’ll work on projects that improve day-to-day developer workflows. You will help build and maintain systems that integrate AI into the software lifecycle, including contributing to production MCP infrastructure that connects to AI coding agents, with a focus on reliability, usability, and measurable impact.

🧠  You will...

• Collaborate on software projects with product design and backend aspects
• Develop, release, and maintain backend services and/or infrastructure
• Lead individual project priorities, milestones, and ensure we're always shipping
• Experience onboarding AI tools and changing engineering processes
• Focus on streamlining engineering processes with AI tools

✅  You have...

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
• Experience programming in Java, Python, or Kotlin
• Solid understanding of one or more database technologies

⭐  Exceptional candidates will have...

• Industry experience building high-traffic APIs using public cloud providers

Latitude AI (lat.ai) develops automated driving technologies, including L3, for Ford vehicles at scale. We’re driven by the opportunity to reimagine what it’s like to drive and make travel safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone.  

When you join the Latitude team, you’ll work alongside leading experts across machine learning and robotics, cloud platforms, mapping, sensors and compute systems, test operations, systems and safety engineering – all dedicated to making a real, positive impact on the driving experience for millions of people. 

As a Ford Motor Company subsidiary, we operate independently to develop automated driving technology at the speed of a technology startup. Latitude is headquartered in Pittsburgh with engineering centers in Dearborn, Mich., and Palo Alto, Calif.

Meet the team:

Latitude Cloud Platform engineers create reusable architecture via infrastructure as code for Latitude teams to leverage as common shared components and educate Latitude teams on how to architect their solutions for scale, security, and reviewed changes through automation. This includes ownership of the workload ecosystem on Kubernetes running on public and hybrid cloud environments.

The Cloud Platform team interacts with engineering teams including ingest/data processing, mapping, labeling, triage, machine learning (detection, prediction, tracking), motion planning/control, offline simulation, and release/deployment teams to unify development practices and scalable efficiency of cloud/cloud native technologies.

What you’ll do: 

• Architect and scale a multi-tenant, hybrid-cloud Kubernetes platform to ensure seamless workload portability across public and internal environments
• Develop custom Kubernetes operators and self-service abstractions to simplify complex infrastructure management for autonomous vehicle engineering teams
• Optimize high-performance distributed workloads by architecting specialized compute environments for ML and simulation on heterogeneous hardware
• Standardize end-to-end GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines to automate security, networking, and observability across the infrastructure lifecycle
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to ensure engineering teams build resilient, cost-effective services aligned with cloud-native best practices
• Manage the lifecycle of critical platform components like service mesh and networking while proactively resolving systemic bottlenecks in hybrid cloud environments

What you'll need to succeed:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or a related field and 4+ years of relevant experience (or Master's degree and 2+ years of relevant experience, or PhD)
• Hands on development in Python, Go, or Java to create production level services that incorporate CI/CD
• Experience in using infrastructure as code to automate the creation of cloud resources. E.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, or others
• Strong experience with architecting/deploying scalable services and workloads in the cloud (AWS, GCP) and/or cloud native environments
• Strong experience with deployment management/scheduling/high availability/failure modes for distributed applications and compute workloads running on CPUs and GPUs
• Understand engineering design limitations and provide guidance for teams to scale their deployments in the cloud so that they can achieve desired performance within budget
• Experience creating reusable deployment patterns for teams to adopt, that incorporate networking, security, monitoring, logging, alerting, continuous integration and deployments
• Understanding of API specification languages (e.g. Open API/gRPC) and the ability to create reusable code via code generation, templates, and other rapid development techniques for teams to consume
• Leverage and modify open source tools to meet unique requirements for internal teams, including but not limited to Kubernetes, Prometheus, FluentD, Istio, Envoy, CoreDNS, etcd, Flux, among others

What we offer you:

• Competitive compensation packages
• High-quality individual and family medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings account with available employer match
• Employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan with immediate vesting
• Employer-paid group term life insurance and the option to elect voluntary life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Paid medical leave
• Unlimited vacation
• 15 paid holidays
• Daily lunches, snacks, and beverages available in all office locations
• Pre-tax spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Adoption/Surrogacy support program
• Backup child and elder care program
• Professional development reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Discounted programs that include legal services, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and more
• Company and team bonding outlets: employee resource groups, quarterly team activity stipend, and wellness initiatives

Learn more about Latitude’s team, mission and career opportunities at lat.ai!

The expected base salary range for this full-time position in California is $179,200 - $268,800 USD. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Latitude employees are also eligible to participate in Latitude’s annual bonus programs, equity compensation, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Candidates for positions with Latitude AI must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.

Latitude AI (lat.ai) develops automated driving technologies, including L3, for Ford vehicles at scale. We’re driven by the opportunity to reimagine what it’s like to drive and make travel safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone.

When you join the Latitude team, you’ll work alongside leading experts across machine learning and robotics, cloud platforms, mapping, sensors and compute systems, test operations, systems and safety engineering – all dedicated to making a real, positive impact on the driving experience for millions of people. 

As a Ford Motor Company subsidiary, we operate independently to develop automated driving technology at the speed of a technology startup. Latitude is headquartered in Pittsburgh with engineering centers in Dearborn, Mich., and Palo Alto, Calif.

Meet the team:

The Enterprise Cyber Security team is focused on ensuring the resilience of our corporate environment with focus on protection of our corporate systems, IP, and employee data. We are a close-knit team with strong cross-functional roles in the company.

As a Cyber Security Engineer, you will be the hands-on technical lead securing our Infrastructure and assets (Servers, Client Endpoints, VMs, etc…) with a focus on Data Protection/Loss Prevention (DLP/CASB/MDM, etc…), and Identity Management Solutions (Entra/AD/LDAP/MFA). You will be backing up others on the team including Incident Response and Vulnerability Management. You should have a deep understanding of infrastructure and solutions that support management of assets and the operations depending on it, including our software/hardware/network engineering, fleet operations requirements, and administrative functions. You will use your knowledge and experience to design, implement, measure, and continuously improve our security posture and tooling. 

What you’ll do: 

• Plan for, execute, and follow through on projects and engagements independently or with little guidance
• Manage and audit our Identity Provider Solutions (Entra, LDAP preferred)
• Apply best practices in software engineering, delivering projects on time, on budget, and with excellent quality and security configurations
• Create new deployments and architecture designs and review existing ones looking for design flaws, security improvements, and advocating for stronger security controls that meet functional and operational needs
• Work hand-in-hand with the IT and Product teams to review, research, design and develop security solutions that enable productivity, but maintain security
• Engage actively in software selection and deployment initiatives to assess and onboard security and other technical solutions for endpoints, development and production environments 
• Perform Security Assessments and Audits - Documenting findings, implementing remediation, or drafting Action Plans for remediation/mitigation
• Implement automation and orchestration aspects of security processes and tooling to integrating with APIs and applications/workflows across the organization and in our SIEM (Splunk and Apigee experience preferred)
• Identify, Develop, and deliver dashboards and report metrics on the status of the Cyber Security posture, and develop dashboards, reports, and define metrics for cross-functional teams
• Moderate and contribute to deployments and administrative controls that contribute to:
• Proactive monitoring, analysis, and correcting system security issues
• Development of scripts to automate, perform security checks, and develop tools to enhance support of the infrastructure and endpoint systems
• Implement and deploy solutions to protect infrastructure and Intellectual Property
• Developing playbooks/runbooks, operational and troubleshooting documentation for use internally and with external MDR providers
• Manage and deploy solutions for Data Protection consisting of MDM, EDR, DLP, CASB, and system hardening/compliance
• Provide ongoing support for various Incident, Vulnerability, and Security event workflows

What you'll need to succeed:

• Minimum requirements Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security or a related field and 2+ years of relevant experience, Master's degree, or PhD
• Relevant hands-on experience deploying and administering solutions as a Cyber Security Engineer and Operational Administrator
• 2+ years of related experience Incident Response management and assessing the risk/severity rating of incidents and exposures
• 2+ years Hands-on experience with tooling in the Entra, Intune, EDR, DLP, CASB, and Splunk SOAR/Enterprise Security and Logging/Alerting tools and Compliance/Response space
• Experience with MacOS, Linux, and Windows Systems Administration using configuration management software and tooling to manage systems across a large and distributed environments
• Strong understanding of Cyber Security Standards (ISO27001, NIST 800-53, CIS Benchmarks)
• Ability and experience with automation of Security Standards and Compliance scanning and configuration hardening, and detections for non-compliance
• Must have demonstrated proficiency and strength in verbal, written, presentation, and communications skills, including technical diagramming, interactions cross-functionally with teams outside of the Cyber Security Team
• High proficiency in Tooling for Identity Management and Authentication Solutions, Mobile Device Management, and Data Protection Tooling (Entra, Intune, Endpoint Agents)
• Proficiency in scripting languages, including Bash, Python, Go, or Java to create production level services and tools
• Proficiency in using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate the deployment of Cyber Security Solutions. E.g. Terraform, Ansible, or others
• Ability to grasp new technologies quickly, prioritize and multitask on multiple responsibilities
• Hands-on Experience with patching and hardening Linux, MacOS, and Windows Systems (clients and servers) using standards such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Critical Security Controls 
• Proficient in Network Protocols and Host Firewall Management, with hands-on experience in configuration and optimization to ensure infrastructure network security at the host level and at perimeters
• Critical thinking and a holistic view of Cyber Security with ability to balance security requirements with mission needs and collaboration across teams
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills demonstrated through adept autonomy, creation of timelines, scope and priorities,  independent work, collaborative teamwork, and a professional demeanor
• Strong experience with architecting/deploying scalable security services and workloads in the infrastructure and endpoint space. Minimizing impact with regard to functional impact on compute workloads running on CPUs, GPUs, and Memory utilization
• Understand engineering design limitations and provide guidance for teams to secure their deployments to achieve desired performance in budget and on time
• An Independent take-charge attitude while being open-minded, creatively thinking, willing to take calculated risks, and make informed decisions
• A sense of comradery, compassion, and unparalleled passion/energy

What we offer you:

• Competitive compensation packages
• High-quality individual and family medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings account with available employer match
• Employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan with immediate vesting
• Employer-paid group term life insurance and the option to elect voluntary life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Paid medical leave
• Unlimited vacation
• 15 paid holidays
• Daily lunches, snacks, and beverages available in all office locations
• Pre-tax spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Adoption/Surrogacy support program
• Backup child and elder care program
• Professional development reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Discounted programs that include legal services, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and more
• Company and team bonding outlets: employee resource groups, quarterly team activity stipend, and wellness initiatives

Learn more about Latitude’s team, mission and career opportunities at lat.ai!

The expected base salary range for this full-time position in California is $133,280 - $199,920 USD. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Latitude employees are also eligible to participate in Latitude’s annual bonus programs, equity compensation, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Candidates for positions with Latitude AI must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.

Position Overview

We are seeking a proficient Embedded Security Engineer to join our team and contribute to the protection of our models deployed on robotic hardware. You will be responsible for conducting comprehensive threat modeling and security assessments, as well as supporting our engineering teams in adhering to established security standards and requirements. This role involves both software engineering techniques and deep learning methods to encode/encrypt trained models. A blend of technical acumen and collaborative skills is essential, as you will develop solutions to identified risks, write test cases for security controls, and actively participate in offensive security assessments.

Responsibilities

• Conduct detailed threat modeling and security assessments of critical assets.
• Regularly update threat models to reflect evolving threats and changes in the business environment.
• Identify and explore vulnerabilities in critical software components used across our environment.
• Create and implement technical solutions to mitigate identified risks, and maintain test cases to ensure the effectiveness and resilience of the solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure compliance with defined security standards and requirements.
• Provide support in the implementation of security measures.
• Lead penetration tests and red team exercises.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS, MS or higher degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency developing higher-level languages (e.g., PHP, Python, C++, or Java).
• Experience with deep learning software, frameworks, and APIs (e.g., PyTorch, etc.).
• Experience with enterprise security.
• Proven experience in threat modeling, security assessments, and penetration testing.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, frameworks, and standards.
• Understanding and experience with securing transfer and storage of deep neural network models.

Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to enhance the performance, reliability, and maintainability of our cutting-edge robotics systems in deployment. You will design, implement, and maintain software systems for deployment in real-world robotic products. This role involves leading discussions and collaborating with machine learning, deployment, test, and security engineers to ensure seamless integration of our machine learning models into practical applications. You will also define technical roadmaps and drive product and system architecture direction.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain deployment software infrastructure and back-end services (e.g., model training infrastructure, AI developer tools, metrics dashboards).
• Lead teams to develop reliable software systems with robust testing, metrics, and logging mechanisms.
• Write and review code, develop documentation, create capacity plans, and debug on robot hardware.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical roadmaps and drive the direction of product and system architecture.
• Share an on-call rotation with the engineering team to ensure system reliability and quick issue resolution.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS, MS or higher degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of industry experience.
• Proficiency developing higher-level languages (e.g. Python, C++, or Java).
• Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems, and messaging systems.
• Knowledge of Linux OS fundamentals, memory management, and kernel.
• Experience learning software, frameworks, and APIs.
• Experience with enterprise security.
• Previous extensive work experience as a: Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Network Engineer, Systems Administrator, Linux Administrator, Database Administrator, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), or similar.