Hume AI
Developer Platform Engineer
San Jose, CA · Junior
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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The bottom of this range ($100,000) is below the Level I prevailing wage of $152,797. An H-1B cannot be filed below the prevailing wage, so an offer at the floor of this band could not be sponsored as posted.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $187,075 would place this position at wage Level II. 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) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. 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
- We are seeking a Developer Platform Engineer to join our team.
- In this role, you will be a key contributor in the development and shaping of our developer platform.
Responsibilities
- Provide expert guidance and solutions for technical support queries from our Developer Community Discord Server and strategic partners.
- Author and maintain comprehensive API documentation.
- Design and build advanced tools (client libraries, SDKs, etc.) to simplify API consumption.
- Collaborate in designing APIs to enhance usability and streamline flows.
- Additionally, you will focus on creating comprehensive documentation and providing top-tier developer support, making it easier for developers to integrate and use our APIs effectively.
Requirements
- 1+ years of experience in customer support for API products.
- 1+ years of experience designing and shipping developer tools.
- 1+ years of web development experience with TypeScript.
- Proficiency with API definitions and specifications, including OpenAPI and AsyncAPI.
- Proficiency in technical writing, particularly in API documentation.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Competitive salary and benefits package, including 401k and fully paid health, vision, and dental insurance
- Opportunity to work in person in our San Jose office
Compensation
- $100,000 - $200,000 USD
Company info
- Hume AI is a Series B startup dedicated to building artificial intelligence that is directly optimized for human well-being. We're gearing up to launch the next generation of Octave and EVI, our foundational speech-language models for voice generation and powering real-time empathic AI assistants for any application.
- Our models understand and generate subtle tones of voice, word emphasis, and more and the reactions of users. They are rated higher than models by OpenAI and others on empathy, expressiveness, naturalness, and speed, instantly speak with 100K+ unique voices and styles, stream language, emotion, and reasoning - all at once, and are fast enough to feel truly conversational ( hume.ai.
- 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.
- We're gearing up to launch the next generation of Octave and EVI, our foundational speech-language models for voice generation and powering real-time empathic AI assistants for any application.
- Our models understand and generate subtle tones of voice, word emphasis, and more and the reactions of users.
- They are rated higher than models by OpenAI and others on empathy, expressiveness, naturalness, and speed, instantly speak with 100K+ unique voices and styles, stream language, emotion, and reasoning - all at once, and are fast enough to feel truly conversational ( hume.ai.
- 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.