AI Researcher
Hume AI · NYC, San Jose, or Remote · New York Office · Remote · San Jose Office
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Applied AIremote$180k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build state-of-the-art speech-language models guided by human values.
- Advance RL from human expression using millions of audio-video recordings.
- Expand audio understanding models and enterprise evaluation platforms.
Ideal candidate
Creative AI researcher excited to advance empathic speech models at scale and align AI with human well-being. You thrive iterating on uncertain research directions in NYC with a mission-driven team.
Requirements
- Relevant publications, 2+ years in industry research role, and/or open-source model contributions
- Expertise in the Python ecosystem and popular ML libraries and tools (e.g. PyTorch)
- Experience writing robust and maintainable production-ready code
- Comfort iterating quickly on new and uncertain research directions
- 2+ years contributing to training and/or fine-tuning models with large-scale text, audio, image, and/or video datasets
Lab profile
About Hume AI
Building empathic speech-language models aligned with human values through emotion science.
What they build
- Speech-language models (SLMs)
- Audio models
- Evaluation tools
Known for
- Reinforcement learning from human expression (RLHE)
- Learning from millions of audio and video recordings
- Science of emotion and human values alignment
Key facts
- Headquartered in New York City
- Series B startup