Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Hume AI, a Series B funded company, is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to advance their mission of building empathy and goal-alignment into AI. The company recently launched EVI 2, a foundational audio-language model for empathic AI assistants. The role focuses on integrating cutting-edge AI models into services and toolkits for researchers and developers.

The position involves working with backend web services and ML infrastructure, collaborating closely with research scientists and frontend engineers to enhance the Hume platform. The successful candidate will participate in various engineering initiatives across the ML lifecycle, including model training, evaluation, and deployment at scale.

Hume AI's technology specializes in understanding subtle voice tones, word emphasis, facial expressions, and listener reactions to optimize AI for human well-being. They conduct groundbreaking scientific research, publish in leading journals like Nature, and support The Hume Initiative, which has established ethical guidelines for empathic AI.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Python and ML libraries, cloud platforms, and modern deployment strategies. Additional valuable skills include experience with multiple programming languages, MLOps platforms, and distributed training tools. This role offers an opportunity to work at the intersection of machine learning research and engineering, contributing to technology that better serves human goals through emotional understanding.