Senior/Staff AI Research Engineer
Hume AI · NYC, San Jose, or Remote · New York Office · Remote · San Jose Office
CHECKED 14H AGO
Applied AIremotesenior/staff$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 and video recordings.
- Build systems for distributed training, inference and benchmarking at scale.
Ideal candidate
You are a research-minded engineer who thrives in ambiguity and cares deeply about aligning AI with human well-being and emotional expression.
Requirements
- 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 of experience training and/or fine-tuning transformer models with large-scale datasets of text, audio, image, and/or video data
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