Data Engineer - Speech Data Sourcing

About Altimi

Altimi is a technology acceleration partner with impressive experience spanning over 20 years, specializing in the successful delivery of software development projects for international customers. We are based in Poland. Our main area of operation is the DACH region and Scandinavia, where we are known for providing top-notch software development services.

Our primary focus are managed services for companies seeking to accelerate growth, solve complex tech problems, build MVP/POC and/or modify legacy infrastructures.

The main area of competence include Product & Application Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Security & Managed Services and AI & Data Enablement.

Role Overview

We are looking for someone to own speech data sourcing in a project for an EU-based company developing advanced speech processing for embedded systems. The role combines technical skills with vendor and data quality management.

Occasional business trips of 3-5 days may be required, especially at the start of the project.

Responsibilities

• Owning the end-to-end speech data sourcing process
• Managing vendors: selection, negotiation, and delivery oversight
• Defining recording protocols and acceptance criteria
• Managing data acquisition budgets
• Performing quality control of delivered data
• Building and maintaining audio and metadata pipelines in Python
• Versioning datasets
• Ensuring compliance with consent/licensing requirements and GDPR for biometric data

Requirements

• Experience working with audio/speech data
• Strong Python skills
• Experience building data pipelines
• Familiarity with dataset versioning tools and practices
• Knowledge of GDPR, particularly regarding biometric data
• Experience working with external vendors
• Fluent English

Nice to have

• Experience managing project budgets
• Understanding of data licensing for ML model training

Whats in it for you?

• Join for a role, stay for the development: More than 40% of our team is working with us longer than 5 years. Explore diverse domains, projects and modern technologies through internal mobility.
• Learn from the best: Almost 60% of all our colleague has over 10 years of professional experience.
• Flexibility: Work fully remotely, full-time from our office in Wroclaw or in a hybrid model.
• Practical benefits: private medical care, life insurance, sport card.