Hume AI
Senior Platform Engineer
New York, New York, United States · Senior
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About the role
- You will support cutting-edge research by contributing to the design, construction, and maintenance of a modern and efficient cloud AI infrastructure and the applications that run on it.
- You will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, make sound architectural decisions, and take ownership of systems from design through production.
- As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work directly with our team of research scientists, machine learning engineers, and designers to improve the services that allow us to deliver expression measurement, expression generation, and empathic foundation models in a number of groundbreaking applications.
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement systems that enable new features and improvements of our API.
- Own the design and evolution of our cloud infrastructure, from deployment pipelines to production services.
- Communicate, collaborate, and grow alongside our engineering team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in developing backend services.
- Expertise working with compute and storage on a cloud platform (e.g. GCP, AWS).
- Experience in Kotlin/Spring, Typescript/Express, Python/FastAPI, or Rust.
- Familiarity with service deployment tooling (especially Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo, Docker).
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, etc.).
Compensation
- $180,000 - $230,000 USD
Company info
- Hume AI is a Series B startup dedicated to building artificial intelligence that is directly optimized for human well-being. As the first company to release speech language models, we're focused on expanding our research to encompass audio understanding models and evaluation platforms for enterprises.
- Our goal is to enable a future in which technology draws on an understanding of human emotional expression to better serve human goals. As part of our mission, we also conduct groundbreaking scientific research, publish in leading scientific journals like Nature, and support a non-profit, The Hume Initiative, that has released the first concrete ethical guidelines for empathic AI ( www.thehumeinitiative.org ). You can learn more about us on our website ( https://hume.ai/ ) and read about us in WIRED, Forbes, and Venturebeat.
- Hume AI is a Series B startup dedicated to building artificial intelligence that is directly optimized for human well-being.
- As the first company to release speech language models, we're focused on expanding our research to encompass audio understanding models and evaluation platforms for enterprises.
- Our goal is to enable a future in which technology draws on an understanding of human emotional expression to better serve human goals.
- As part of our mission, we also conduct groundbreaking scientific research, publish in leading scientific journals like Nature, and support a non-profit, The Hume Initiative, that has released the first concrete ethical guidelines for empathic AI ( www.thehumeinitiative.org ).
- You can learn more about us on our website ( https://hume.ai/ ) and read about us in WIRED, Forbes, and Venturebeat.
This listing is sourced directly from Hume AI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.