Senior/Staff AI Research Engineer
- Pay
- $180,000 – $350,000 per year
- Location
- New York, NY (Remote)
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Director
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Listed
- 31 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Python
- PyTorch
- transformer models
- large-scale data pipelines
About the Role
We are looking for talented researchers and engineers interested in working with our team to build state-of-the-art audio models and evaluation tools. In this role, you will build out software systems that support distributed model training, inference, and benchmarking as well as massive-scale data collection, storage, preprocessing, and analysis. You will be working to solve some of today's most exciting AI research problems at industry scale.
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
Application Note
Please apply only to the position that best aligns with your qualifications. If you submit multiple applications or have applied within the past 6 months, only your initial submission will be considered.
Pay and benefits
Annual Salary $180,000—$350,000 USD
About Hume AI
Hume AI is seeking talented researchers and engineers interested in working with our AI research team to build state-of-the-art speech-language models (SLMs). Our new SLM training method-reinforcement learning from human expression (RLHE)-learns human preferences from behavior in millions of audio and video recordings, making SLMs superhumanly helpful, interesting, funny, eloquent, honest, and altruistic. Join us in the heart of New York City and contribute to our endeavor to ensure that AI is guided by human values, the most pivotal challenge (and opportunity) of the 21st century.
About Us
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.
From Hume AI's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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Common questions
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The Senior/Staff AI Research Engineer posting at Hume AI states compensation of $180,000 – $350,000 per year. It is listed as a full-time position. Final pay may depend on location, experience, and interview evaluation on Hume AI's official career site.
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