Aflorithmic Labs is a London & Barcelona based fast-growing AI Voice- and Audio-Tech Startup with global ambition. Our aim is to make the creation of beautiful audio as easy as writing and enable the creation of innovative audio products that leverage the new possibilities of state-of-the-art AI speech and sound synthesis through API. Aflorithmic has been featured in international press like TechCrunch, Business Insider, 20min and more due to the state-of-the-art voice cloning and automated audio production capabilities.

In candidates, we look for excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, a healthy “Can-do” attitude and an unwavering ability to embrace a positive culture of blameless post-mortems, admit mistakes and continuous improvement. We are a team of builders and love enthusiastic team players; we value great collaboration and communication skills. Whether you are an academic or have an industry background, we'd love you to join our 20+ people strong international team made out of 13 nationalities in engineering, voice & audio, R&D and business (backgrounds include: PhDs, European Space Agency, SAP, Amazon).

We believe everyone has ideas to contribute to our objective of continuous improvement, so you will be expected to take ownership and bring ideas to the table, and also inspire others in the team to do the same. Customer trust is super important to us, and as we handle PII voice data for our voice cloning API it's vital that we do this in a secure and trustworthy way. Find out more about our Ethics here.

Technical requirements

Essential:

• Experience in python and sql. We also expect you to have some strong opinions on frameworks such as airflow and pytorch
• A strong interest in data pipelines, machine learning and user experience. We don't expect you to be a researcher but we do expect you to have good interest in MLOps.
• Proven experience writing reliable code, examples could be projects at previous work, personal or uni, open source contributions o git repositories.
• Able to Communicate fluently in English.
• Ability to set coding standards for a fast growing team

Desirable:

• Basic knowledge/interest in cloud architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Expert knowledge of Airflow.
• Experience of web performance optimization
• Some experience of modern data pipeline frameworks such as Airflow and Spark
• Experience with microservice architectures & serverless services such as Lambda, SQS, S3.
• Experience with airflow, luigi, kubernetres, kubeflow or related frameworks
• Experience with any noSQL database such as DynamoDB or mongoDB.
• Knowledge of Bash and Linux distributions (extra points if you have strong opinions on Fish shell and Zsh).
• Open Source contributions - our CTO was a core member of the PyMC3 team - a noted python machine learning and applied statistics project, so collaboration and OSS is built into our DNA.

Your tasks & responsibilities will include

• Build and enhance data pipelines and data engineering for an end-to-end voice pipeline.
• Build beautiful internal tools and external tools for our users. You'll need a keen interest in scalability and performance of data pipelines
• Working closely with the ML and platform teams to create robust data pipelines that will help us to move quickly and create a great customer experience 
• Choose the best software tools and libraries based on user and product requirements.
• Write beautiful documentation and highly maintainable code.
• Bringing in new tools (e.g. airflow, snowflake, fivetran) whatever works to allow us to build better experiences for our creative focused users. You'll work closely with the CTO and build up our data team. We use some kubeflow but we're open to other tools
• Manage and mentor a team of two very talented juniors (we're interested in hearing about your people management experience or even any mentoring you've done :) )

What we offer

• The opportunity to work in an exceptional tech team with diverse and highly recognisable (our team includes experts who worked at ESA, NHS, Zopa, Amazon, Catawiki) backgrounds: dedicated to building tools from developers for developers.
• A clean code base and a great engineering culture that focuses and celebrates shipping.
• Be part of a great story: we are making audio scalable for the first time in history
• Great Learning & Development environment. We're strong believers in collaboration and regularly do pair programming, and share knowledge internally.
• Flexible working hours & work from home (or anywhere in Europe).
• Stock Options (subject to performance and time served).
• We've written about our engineering culture - https://www.aflorithmic.ai/post/friday-wins-celebrating-shipping-and-delivery and we strongly believe we're building a world class and generative engineering culture. If you care about these things, you should come work with us.
• A truly international and diverse team: currently 13 different nationalities in our team of 23 people.
• Offices in the hottest startup hubs - London and Barcelona.
• A sunny terrace in our office in Poblenou (Barcelona) and a not so sunny terrace in our office in London and many informal gatherings with our teammates (if Covid allows).