Senior AI Platform Engineer — API & Inference

AssemblyAI; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 190,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

AssemblyAI in Washington, DC is seeking a Software Engineer to turn cutting-edge AI research into scalable APIs that power production traffic. You’ll sit on a fast-paced engineering team between our research org and Applied teams, taking model capabilities from proof of concept to robust, well-documented APIs serving production traffic at scale.

You’ll own building customer-facing APIs, scale inference infrastructure, and collaborate with researchers to productionize new techniques while

Qualifications

• Backend engineering experience in production
• Comfort working with ambiguous timelines
• Genuine interest in AI/ML and model behavior
• Strong collaboration with researchers, engineers and customers

Responsibilities

• Design and ship customer-facing APIs exposing new model capabilities
• Scale inference infrastructure to support 1M+ API users
• Partner with researchers to productionize new techniques
• Work with customers and Applied teams to feedback product design and direction
• Contribute across the stack: backend services, inference, SDKs, internal tools

Skills

Backend engineering

Ambiguity handling

AI/ML curiosity

Collaborative mindset

Job description

AssemblyAI in Washington, DC is seeking a Software Engineer to turn cutting-edge AI research into scalable APIs that power production traffic. You’ll sit on a fast-paced engineering team between our research org and Applied teams, taking model capabilities from proof of concept to robust, well-documented APIs serving production traffic at scale.

You’ll own building customer-facing APIs, scale inference infrastructure, and collaborate with researchers to productionize new techniques while