Senior Software Engineer, AssemblyAI
Streaming
$200-225k
Speech AI models to automatically recognize and understand speech
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Speech AI models to automatically recognize and understand speech
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-225k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create new, superhuman Speech AI models that will unlock entirely new classes of applications and products to be built leveraging voice data.
Role
Who you are
- Strong backend engineering experience, including building and supporting customer-facing APIs in production
- Comfort operating with ambiguity. Research timelines and product timelines don't always line up, and you're energized rather than frustrated by that
- Genuine curiosity about AI/ML. You don't need to be a researcher, but you should want to understand what the models are doing well enough to make good engineering decisions around them
- Strong collaboration skills. You'll be working daily with researchers, applied engineers, and sometimes customers, people with very different contexts and priorities, and the role only works if you enjoy that
- We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. No matter your race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply!
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Software Engineer to help turn cutting-edge AI research into products our customers rely on every day
- You'll sit on a fast-paced engineering team between our research org and our Applied teams, taking new model capabilities from proof of concept to robust, well-documented APIs serving production traffic at scale
- Design and ship customer-facing APIs that expose new model capabilities, owning them from prototype through launch and ongoing iteration
- Partner with researchers to productionize new techniques. For example, turning a notebook or POC into something with the latency, reliability, and ergonomics customers expect
- Work with our customers and Applied teams to understand how users are building with our products, and feed that back into product design and research direction
- Contribute across the stack as needed: backend services, inference infrastructure, SDKs, internal tooling
Our take
Audio has become central to many products on the internet, from the explosive uptake of Zoom to the inclusion of audio and video messaging features on dating apps. In this vein, AssemblyAI has developed AI models for transcribing, understanding and analyzing audio and video data.
Between the summers of 2021 to 2022, AssemblyAI saw the number of developers building with its APIs grow by over 1000%, with customers ranging from start-ups like Veed to global enterprises including NBC Universal and Spotify. Coupling this with a strong in-house pedigree - from the likes of DeepMind, Google Brain and Meta AI - AssemblyAI has built the foundations for a very exciting future.
And with impressive funding under its belt, the company is scaling up its efforts, accelerating its product roadmap, whilst building an even better AI infrastructure to speed up AI research and inference engines.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2023
$50m
SERIES C
Jul 2022
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $113.2m
Company benefits
- Home office stipend: We invest in our people first and offer competitive salaries across all roles andEvery new team member gets U$1,000 to improve their home office. We want to make sure everyone has the setup to do their best work. locations
- Equity: We want our team members to have skin in the game and an opportunity to see long-term returns on the hard work they are putting in. To that end, every team member receives a generous equity grant
- Premium benefit offerings: We offer premium medical, dental, and vision plans and cover up to 100% of the premiums for both the employee and their family. We also offer opportunities to contribute to an HSA or FSA, short-term and long-term disability coverage, and life insurance
- Unlimited PTO: We offer a flexible PTO policy to all team members and encourage everyone to take time off to recharge, do something fun, and spend time with loved ones
- Team offsites: We have team and company-wide retreats in amazing locations to give everyone an opportunity to meet in person, collaborate, and build working relationships that make us a better team
- Global remote team: We hire the best person for the job, regardless of location. Our remote-first culture allows team members to make an impact from anywhere in the world
- Diversity and inclusion: We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace
- Flexible schedule: Strong teams are built on mutual trust and accountability. We believe in giving our team members ownership over their work and a flexible schedule to allow them to operate at their highest potential
Company HQ
Inner Sunset, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dylan Fox
(Founder & CEO)Previously founded and acted as CEO for YouGive1. Experience as Senior Software Engineer for Cisco and as a Lead Research Assistant for NDP Consulting.
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