Staff Frontend Engineer, Hume AI
$130-230k
Empathic AI to serve human wellbeing
Open for applications
Empathic AI to serve human wellbeing
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$130-230k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking an experienced and motivated frontend engineer to advance our core mission: using the world’s most advanced technology for emotion understanding to build empathy and goal-alignment into AI
- 6-10 years of experience in developing frontend web applications
- Proficiency with a modern frontend stack (TypeScript, React, Next, Tailwind, etc)
- Expertise in modern frontend best practices, including accessibility, semantic markup, Core Web Vitals, and optimization
- Proficiency with tools like debuggers, profilers, and flamegraphs to identify areas of improvement for performance
- Proficiency with tools for automated testing and CI/CD (such as Jest, Playwright, Axe, Wave, GitHub Actions, Dev Containers)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Desirable
- Familiarity with modern animation and data visualization libraries
What the job involves
- As a Frontend Engineer, you will work closely with our team of research scientists, machine learning engineers, and designers to build our developer platform and commercial applications, making our powerful AI solutions accessible to users with varying degrees of technical sophistication through cutting edge no-code tools
- Lead customer-facing initiatives by contributing new features to our frontend tools while maintaining high standards of excellence
- Work autonomously to maintain and identify areas of improvement for existing code and tests
- Identify areas for improvement within existing codebase that reduces code complexity and improves overall performance of web applications
- Build internal tools to help facilitate prototyping, maintenance, and quality of codebase
- Mentor junior engineers and help provide documentation and resources for onboarding coworkers to new features and components
- Collaborate closely with our design, product, backend, and research teams
Our take
Hume AI was founded by a researcher in semantic space theory - a data-driven, computational approach to emotional science that has been pivotal in the development of artificial intelligence.
The company has developed products that help AI become more emotionally intelligent, effectively fine-tuning everything from digital assistants to online creative tools to respond appropriately to human emotion. To do this, it uses complex measurements to analyse vocal timbre, pitch and facial expressions.
Whilst it's a young company, Hume AI has raised considerable funding thanks to its much-sought-after approach to AI development. There’s a high demand for its product and funding rounds are being used to scale and meet it.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Jan 2023
$12.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $75.7m
Company values
- Beneficence - AI should be deployed only if its benefits substantially outweigh its costs
- Empathy - AI privy to cues of our emotions should serve our emotional well-being
- Scientific Legitimacy - Applications of AI should be supported by collaborative, rigorous, inclusive science
- Emotional Primacy - AI should be prevented from treating human emotion as a means to an end
- Inclusivity - The benefits of AI should be shared by people from diverse backgrounds
- Transparency - People affected by AI should have enough data to make decisions about its use
- Consent - AI should be deployed only with the informed consent of the people whom it affects
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Alan Cowen
(CEO & Chief Scientist)Previously a Scientific Researcher at Google and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California Berkeley. Was also a Scientific Advisor at Facebook and BlackThorn Therapeutics.
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