AI Researcher

Humeai; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Humeai in New York City is looking for talented AI researchers to develop state-of-the-art speech-language models. You will utilize reinforcement learning from human expression to enhance AI capabilities. The position requires expertise in Python and ML libraries, with at least two years of relevant experience.

Join our innovative team and contribute to shaping AI guided by human values while enjoying a competitive salary between $180,000 and $350,000 per year.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a research role related to language, audio, or video models.
• Ability to work on various AI research problems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build software systems for distributed model training and inference.
• Support massive-scale data collection and preprocessing.

Skills

Expertise in Python ecosystem

Familiarity with ML libraries like PyTorch

Experience with production-ready code

Data analysis skills

Job description

Hume AI is seeking talented AI researchers interested in working with our team to build state‑of‑the‑art speech‑language models (SLMs). Our new SLM training method—reinforcement learning from human expression (RLHE)—learns human preferences from behavior in millions of audio and video recordings, making SLMs superhumanly helpful, interesting, funny, eloquent, honest, and altruistic. 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 the Role

We are looking for talented researchers with relevant publications, 2+ years of experience in a research role in industry, and/or a proven track record of contributions to open source language, audio, or video models. (A PhD is neither necessary nor sufficient.) We're looking for someone excited to work with our team to build state‑of‑the‑art audio models and evaluation tools. In this role, you will build out software systems that support distributed model training, inference, and benchmarking as well as massive‑scale data collection, storage, preprocessing, and analysis. You will be working to solve some of today’s most exciting AI research problems at industry scale.

Requirements

• Expertise in the Python ecosystem and popular ML libraries and tools (e.g. 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 (predictive or generative)

Salary

$180,000—$350,000 USD per year