Hume AI
Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Machine Learning
New York, New York, United States · Senior
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$13,461 more — $193,461 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 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 $193,461 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- We are looking for an experienced and motivated senior engineer with experience in backend services and ML infrastructure.
- In this role you will help us integrate cutting edge AI models into services and toolkits for researchers and developers.
Requirements
- Expertise in the Python ecosystem and popular ML libraries and tools (e.g. PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, XGBoost, sklearn, pandas, numpy).
- Experience writing backend services in multiple languages (e.g. Kotlin, Go, Rust, Java, C++).
- Expertise working with storage and compute on a cloud platform (e.g.Google Cloud, AWS).
- Experience using service deployment tooling (e.g. Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Argo).
Compensation
- $180,000 - $250,000 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.