AI Engineer + Writer

HaylieRead Interior Design; San Jose, New York (CA, NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a talented engineer and writer to join their mission of enhancing AI with emotional understanding. This role involves creating and editing technical content, including API documentation and blog posts, to help developers integrate advanced AI tools. The ideal candidate will possess a unique blend of software development expertise and exceptional writing skills, with a passion for the future of AI. Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to promoting human values in technology and contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of empathic AI.

Qualifications

• Philosophically minded software developer with strong writing skills.
• Experience with API documentation and AI tools is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Copyedit developer materials and write technical content.
• Collaborate with teams to create content on emotional intelligence in AI.

Skills

Software Development

Technical Writing

API Documentation

Emotional Intelligence in AI

Storytelling

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Experience in AI-related projects

Job description

Hume AI is seeking an individual with engineering and writing experience 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 dedicated to building artificial intelligence that is directly optimized for human well-being. We raised a Series B funding round at the beginning of the year and just launched the beta of our next flagship AI model, EVI 2, a foundational audio-language model that drives an empathic AI assistant for any application.

Our models understand subtle tones of voice, word emphasis, facial expression, and more, along with the reactions of listeners. These behaviors reveal our preferences—whether we find things interesting or boring; satisfying or frustrating; funny, eloquent, or dubious. We call learning from these signals “reinforcement learning from human expression” (RLHE). AI models trained with RLHE can serve as better question answerers, copywriters, tutors, call center agents, and more, even in text-only interfaces.

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. 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 engineer and writer to help copyedit developer materials (API documentation, tutorials) and write broad-reaching technical content (blog posts, white papers). In this role, you will create content that helps developers understand the role of emotional intelligence in AI, imagine the future of AI interfaces, and integrate our API into wide-ranging applications. You will work closely with our developer relations, product, engineering, and research teams on a diverse range of content.

Requirements

The ideal candidate is a philosophically minded software developer with excellent writing and storytelling skills. They have worked with (but not necessarily written) API documentation, especially for AI tools, have informed opinions about the future of AI, and have a strong interest in science.

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.

$100,000 - $200,000 USD

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