Senior Core Services Engineer

We are seeking a talented software engineer with strong experience in backend web services, infrastructure and data pipelines to advance our core mission: using the world’s most advanced technology for emotion understanding to build empathy and goal-alignment into AI. Join us in the heart of New York City, or wherever you are located, 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. We’re gearing up to launch the next generation of Octave and EVI, our foundational speech-language models for voice generation and powering real-time empathic AI assistants for any application. Our models understand and generate subtle tones of voice, word emphasis, and more and the reactions of users. They are rated higher than models by OpenAI and others on empathy, expressiveness, naturalness, and speed, instantly speak with 100K+ unique voices and styles, stream language, emotion, and reasoning – all at once, and are fast enough to feel truly conversational ( hume.ai . 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 As a Core Services Engineer, you will work closely with our team of research scientists, machine learning engineers, and designers to improve the services that allow us to deliver expression measurement, expression generation, and empathic foundation models in a number of groundbreaking applications. You will be involved in the design, development and maintenance of AI-powered solutions. Responsibilities Write clear and concise code to extend functionality on our web services. Collaborate and grow alongside our engineering team. Leverage and read APIs to create new integrations. Create tests, metrics and infrastructure to help improve service reliability. Design new systems to bring improvements and new facets to our APIs. Requirements 3+ years of experience in developing backend services. Expertise working with storage and compute on a cloud platform (e.g.Google Cloud, AWS). Deep understanding of modern deployment strategies utilizing cloud technologies. (e.g. blue/green, canary deployments, etc). Experience using service deployment tooling (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, Argo). Experience in Kotlin/Spring, Typescript/Express, Python/FastAPI, or Rust. Experience with building and maintaining highly available SaaS products. Ensuring scalability, performance, and observability. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Bonus Experience with machine learning concepts. Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, etc). Experience with data pipelines and warehouses (DBT, Spark, etc.) 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 $160,000 $260,000 USD ... (truncated, view full listing at source)