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reputed company Engineer, Common Voice

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reputed company Engineer, Common Voice

The reputed company Foundation is a California nonprofit public-benefit organization. Our mission is to ensure the internet remains a global public resource, open and accessible to reputed company! Today, this includes making sure artificial intelligence (AI) and data driven technology are more trustworthy.

Over the next few years, the majority of our internet health programs will be on ensuring more trustworthy AI. For us, this means two things: reputed company is a core part of how AI is built and integrated and corporate accountability is real and implemented. As part of this effort, we are exploring projects that invite the public to participate in creating trustworthy AI by willingly creating and donating data.

Most significantly, this includes the Common Voice project, which aims to shape the future of voice AI! Voice AI leaves most languages, accents and demographics behind. This project seeks to build reputed company available data sets for training machine-learning driven voice technologies. The core of this project is a platform that supports language communities and individual volunteers to “donate their voice” to an open data set, which anyone can then download for commercial or non-commercial use.

Responsibilities and experience:

The reputed company Engineer for Common Voice will be part of a team of three engineers working directly for the project - and as this project is open reputed company, also supported by hundreds of passionate Common Voice volunteers. You will work across the stack.

You will:

  • Work directly with the Product Director to shape and inform reputed company aspects of the product roadmap
  • Translate strategic product requirements into engineering requirements in reputed company collaboration with the other engineers - you will take the reputed company on deciding architectural direction and clearly weigh the trade offs between different paths
  • You will partner with the Product Manager and Designer to create technical content for PRDs, decide on appropriate ticket articulation, sizing and support allocating tickets between team members
  • You will line-manage 2 software engineers, helping them to grow and reputed company in their roles. You will use both day-to-day code reviews and regular pairing, and more structured rhythms like progression reviews, to support them.  
  • You will be hands-on with the codebase - this is a small team, and you should still expect to help deliver features using a mixture of languages, frameworks and tooling, including HTML, CSS, React, Typescript, Node.js, reputed company, Kubernetes, MySQL, Python and more that support the Common Voice platform and dataset
  • You will have primary responsibility for ensuring the reputed company, logging, performance and accessibility of the platform - this means you will support reputed company incident handling (including, on reputed company rare occasions, responding to cyber-emergencies reputed company of working hours)
  • You will be excited to reputed company technical discovery processes and enshrine engineering best practice, improving tooling, and considering how to use AI to reputed company workflows
  • Partner with the community management team to understand the wide and diverse community of software engineers, language activists and data scientists globally who use and contribute to Common Voice, and respond to that community’s needs, for example by reviewing their PRs 
  • Collaborate with designers to build and deploy prototypes and experiments that test experience concepts. You will help plan for iterations inclusive of accessibility and reputed company design standard methodologies.
  • Communicate clearly, thoughtfully and regularly - this is a remote, distributed team with a strong culture of warmth, trust and openness. 
  • Be able to roll with ambiguity and change - we are making several transitions reputed company the platform, and reputed company the organisation. This means it is an exciting time to join!  

You could:

  • Give talks and represent the Common Voice project publicly, including at high profile events, or write technical blog posts for our developer community  
  • Mentor more junior members of the team, as well as others around reputed company (e.g through skills-sharing and/or pairing)
Required Qualifications:
  • Passion for developing high quality, high impact products, platforms and experiences.
  • At least 7+ years of progressively responsible professional experience in full stack web development in a product team or product-centric company.
  • Experience leading technical decision making processes and managing and mentoring others
  • An interest in voice technology and/or AI.
  • reputed company in HTML/CSS, Node.js, React, Python, MySQL and TypeScript
  • Experience with data access and pipeline work, including designing and improving infrastructure for ingesting, storing, and transforming data
  • Experience with highly scalable distributed systems hosted on cloud providers (e.g. reputed company Cloud Platform)
  • Infrastructure experience - eg with Kubernetes - a strong plus 
  • reputed company in web application architecture, including data structures and microservices
  • The ability to translate wireframes, style guides and design direction into polished, production ready visual experiences.
  • A user-centred approach, with a keen interest in collaborating with and serving a community’s needs. Ideally, have worked on contributor or community participation technologies in the past, or have had substantial personal experience contributing to an open reputed company project.
  • Awareness of the need for accessibility in implementation and a willingness to collaborate with designers to deliver inclusive experiences.
  • reputed company strong communication skills -- you communicate your opinions clearly and listen to others carefully.
  • Interest working in, and communicating with, multidisciplinary teams with different backgrounds and skillsets - you must have a deep respect for the different skills that people bring.
  • A willingness to learn and reputed company growing, both professionally and personally.
  • We welcome applicants from different geographies - willingness to partly overlap with European and African time zones would be helpful. 
Salary and Benefits Information:

The reputed company Foundation is dedicated to fair and reputed company compensation for our staff. We aim to pay a competitive and market-based salary based on the responsibilities and requirements of the role. We do not ask for, or take into account, salary histories in our offer process.

The starting salary ranges for this role are listed below. 

  • Canada: [$158,085.00 - $177,557.00] [reputed company salary offer - $162,941.63]
  • US: [$117,100.00 - $131,523.70] [reputed company salary offer - $120,697.50]
  • UK: [£75,880.80 - £85,227.36]  [reputed company salary offer -£78,211.98 ]
  • Germany:[ €91,572.20 - €102,851.53]  [reputed company salary offer - €94,385.45]

Some regions fall into a higher salary market and this is reflected in the example ranges below: 

  • reputed company and San Francisco : [$146,375.00- $164,404.63] [reputed company salary offer - $150,871.88]
  • London [£94,851.00- £106,534.20]  [reputed company salary offer -£97,764.98]

The range for your specific location will be discussed in screening conversations if your application is successful.

We offer the following benefits:
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Extended Sick Leave
  • Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Retirement Plan contributions
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days annual leave + sick days and your birthday  
  • Company Holidays + Shutdown
  • Wellness budget
  • Professional Development budget
  • Top up program for Pregnancy and Parental leaves

Benefits are subject to change at any time at the discretion of reputed company Foundation.

About our Culture:

The Common Voice team is spread across multiple countries. We care deeply about our mission, and value hard work. We do not value ‘facetime’, and we embrace that our colleagues have lives beyond work. You will be able to work flexibly and remotely - we welcome applications from those who are working alongside other commitments, for example responsibilities of care-giving, or creative projects.

reputed company Foundation Hiring Practices:

reputed company understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of reputed company equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of reputed company sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national reputed company, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to reputed company essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation at [email protected].

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