Hume AI
AI Researcher
$180K–$350K
NYC, San Jose, or Remote +3 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jun 20, 2025
- Location
- NYC, San Jose, or Remote
New York, New York, United States
Remote
San Jose, California, United States - Experience
- 2+ years contributing to model training and/or fine-tuning; the posting also asks for 2+ years in an industry research role and/or a proven open-source model contribution track record.
- Education
- A PhD is neither necessary nor sufficient.
About the job
Build state-of-the-art audio models and evaluation tools, along with the software systems and data pipelines that support research at industry scale.
What you'll do
- Build software systems for distributed model training, inference, and benchmarking.
- Develop systems for large-scale data collection, storage, preprocessing, and analysis.
- Contribute to research on audio models and evaluation tools.
What they ask for
- Expertise in the Python ecosystem and popular ML libraries and tools, such as PyTorch.
- Experience writing robust, maintainable, production-ready code.
- Comfort iterating quickly on new and uncertain research directions.
- 2+ years contributing to training and/or fine-tuning models with large-scale text, audio, image, and/or video datasets.
Nice to have
- Relevant publications.
- A proven track record of contributions to open-source language, audio, or video models.
Pay
$180,000 — $350,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch
AI focus
Research and build speech-language and audio models, evaluation tools, and systems for large-scale model training; the company describes its training approach as reinforcement learning from human expression (RLHE).
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative