Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Machine Learning
Company websitehume.ai (Hume AI, opens in new tab)
Base salary $180K to $250K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in New York, NY
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- LocationNew York, NY
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (2 h ago) · observed since
About this job
Hume AI is seeking a talented senior software engineer with experience in backend services and ML infrastructure who is interested in working with our team to build state-of-the-art audio models and evaluation tools. 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 (www.thehumeinitiative.org). You can learn more about us on our website (https://hume.ai/) and read about us in WIRED, Forbes, and Venturebeat.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and motivated senior engineer with experience in backend services and ML infrastructure. In this role you will help us integrate cutting edge AI models into services and toolkits for researchers and developers. You will work closely with research scientists and other engineers to build new capabilities into the Hume platform, and you will have the opportunity to take part in a wide range of engineering initiatives across backend applications, cloud infrastructure, and the ML lifecycle, including evaluation and deployment at scale.
Requirements
- Expertise in the Python ecosystem and popular ML libraries and tools (e.g. PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, XGBoost, sklearn, pandas, numpy).
- Experience building and deploying models for inference services.
- Experience writing backend services in multiple languages (e.g. Kotlin, Go, Rust, Java, C++).
- Understanding of core ML concepts including model architecture, training, and evaluation.
- Expertise working with storage and compute on a cloud platform (e.g.Google Cloud, AWS).
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Bonus
- Familiarity with data engineering principles and/or building large-scale data pipelines.
- Familiarity with building and deploying LLM-integrated products.
- Experience working at the intersection of machine learning research and engineering.
- Understanding of modern deployment strategies utilizing cloud technologies. (e.g. blue/green, canary deployments, etc).
- Experience using service deployment tooling (e.g. Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Argo).
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.
Annual Salary
$180,000—$250,000 USD
Source: Hume AI on Greenhouse · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($180,000) is above 53% of the 465 Data & ML roles in New York listed on this site; 23 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $175,000; the middle half runs from $150,000 to $200,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.
This listingSenior Software Engineer - Backend & Machine Learning$180K to $250K
AI Researcher$180K to $350K
Senior/Staff AI Research Engineer$180K to $350K
Senior Platform Engineer$180K to $230K
Open Role$130K to $230K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Machine Learning (this listing) | $180K - $250K |
| AI Researcher | $180K - $350K |
| Senior/Staff AI Research Engineer | $180K - $350K |
| Senior Platform Engineer | $180K - $230K |
| Open Role | $130K - $230K |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2025-07-22
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: New York, New York, United States
$180,000—$250,000 USD
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