AI Researcher
$180k - $350k • NYC, San Jose, or Remote
Posted 4mo ago
Job Location
NYC, San Jose, or Remote
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
AI Research Engineer
About the job
Hume AI is seeking talented AI researchers to join their team in New York City and build state-of-the-art speech-language models (SLMs). Their novel SLM training method, reinforcement learning from human expression (RLHE), leverages human preferences from millions of audio and video recordings to create more helpful, interesting, funny, eloquent, honest, and altruistic SLMs. The company is dedicated to building AI optimized for human well-being and is a leader in speech language models, expanding into audio understanding and enterprise evaluation platforms. Hume AI is committed to guiding AI with human values and conducts groundbreaking scientific research, publishing in journals like Nature and supporting ethical AI guidelines through The Hume Initiative.
Responsibilities
- Build out software systems for distributed model training, inference, and benchmarking.
- Develop systems for massive-scale data collection, storage, preprocessing, and analysis.
- Solve exciting AI research problems at industry scale.
Requirements
- Relevant publications and 2+ years of experience in an industry research role, or a proven track record of contributions to open-source language, audio, or video models.
- Expertise in the Python ecosystem and popular ML libraries/tools like PyTorch.
- Experience writing robust and maintainable production-ready code.
- Comfort iterating quickly on new and uncertain research directions.
- 2+ years of experience contributing to the training and/or fine-tuning of models with large-scale datasets of text, audio, image, and/or video data.