Senior Software Engineer, Inference
AssemblyAI3 hours ago
Washington, DC, USASenior
Base Salary
$190k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and ship customer-facing APIs that expose new model capabilities from prototype through launch and ongoing iteration.
- Scale inference infrastructure to support more than 1 million API users.
- Productionize research techniques into reliable, low-latency, customer-ready services.
- Collaborate with researchers, applied engineers, customers, and product teams to inform product and research direction.
- Contribute to backend services, inference infrastructure, SDKs, and internal tooling as needed.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience, including production machine learning infrastructure and/or customer-facing APIs.
- Curiosity about AI/ML and the ability to understand model behavior well enough to make sound engineering decisions.
- Ability to work effectively amid ambiguous and shifting research and product timelines.
- Strong collaboration skills with researchers, applied engineers, customers, and other stakeholders.
Benefits
- The company emphasizes significant ownership, a lean operating environment, and equal opportunity to succeed.
- U.S. salary range is $190,000–$225,000; compensation may vary outside the U.S. and based on experience, qualifications, and internal equity.
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About AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI is the best way to build Voice AI apps. We build the industry’s best speech-to-text and speech understanding models, including promptable speech recognition, that serve as critical infrastructure for top Voice AI products like Granola, Dovetail, Ashby, and Cluely. Our speech-to-text models lead the industry in accuracy and quality, so you can build reliable product experiences on top of voice data. And our Speech Understanding models help you go beyond transcription to uncover insights, identify speakers, and highlight key information. We make it simple to get started, with a developer-first API and usage-based pricing that scales effortlessly to millions of hours.