ML Data & Platform Engineer
Speechmatics · Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Speechmatics London
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own the infrastructure powering speech AI models to production.
- Build pipelines that source and prepare large training datasets.
- Operate the platform that trains, evaluates and serves models.
What they offer
- Private medical and dental for you and your family
- Generous holiday allowance
- Pension/401K matching
- Working from home allowance plus laptop and accessories
- Parental leave support including adoption assistance
- Global working opportunities
- Focus Fridays for undisturbed focus time
Ideal candidate
A self-directed engineer who loves owning end-to-end platform problems spanning data and production ML. You thrive in cross-functional work, removing friction to ship better models faster.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with solid backend or data engineering foundation
- Hands-on experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and major cloud provider
- Experience building data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes at scale, including web scraping
- Solid understanding of ML lifecycle from data through training, evaluation and serving
- Experience with data quality practices and/or production-grade observability
- Ability to design resilient, scalable architectures and troubleshoot distributed systems
- MLOps experience e.g. model serving, experiment tracking, GPU/distributed training optimisation
- Self-starter mentality comfortable identifying problems and driving fixes
- remote policy
- Hybrid with 2-3 designated office days each week
Lab profile
About Speechmatics
Autonomous speech recognition company providing accurate real-time speech-to-text APIs.
What they build
- Real-time speech-to-text API
- Batch transcription API
- Voice AI platform
Known for
- Self-supervised speech AI models
- High accuracy in noisy audio
- 55+ languages support
Key facts
- Founded in 2006
- Headquartered in Cambridge, UK
- Series B funded