AssemblyAI
Applied AI Engineer
New York City, New York
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$15,589 more — $165,589 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $165,589 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Our models serve 600M inference calls monthly, process 1M hours of audio daily, and power 2 billion end-user experiences.
Compensation
- $150k-$250k
Company info
- Why AssemblyAI AssemblyAI builds the best-in-class Voice AI models powering the next generation of voice applications.
- The Voice AI space is at an inflection point; we're looking for folks truly excited to join a small team and help define the future of the industry.
- We are one of the most capital-efficient AI companies on the planet - with under 100 people generating roughl…
This listing is sourced directly from AssemblyAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.