Software Engineer, Research

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, API, AWS, C Programming, C# Programming, C++, Database, Deep Learning, Effective communication skills, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Java Programming, JavaScript, Machine learning techniques, Natural Language Processing (NLP), NoSQL, Python Programming, SQL, Streaming APIs

Job Description

The Role

AssemblyAI is growing quickly, and we’re searching for a mid-level software engineer to help create and own our Deep Learning research framework. You'll need strong software and cloud engineering skills and experience building maintainable systems. Collaboration skills will be important, as you will collaborate closely with the adjacent Research team and help direct a small team to complete larger projects.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Help to design our new experiment framework and integrate it with an open source management platform
• Enable researchers to launch many experiments in the cloud across 100s of accelerators by running a single shell script
• Design, implement, and maintain the experiment framework, databases, and documentation that all our researcher depend on everyday to perform research
• Ensure that model code is hermetically packaged so that it can be easily deployed to production
• Ensure that the platform is well tested and resilient to failures, capacity issues, etc.

You'll love this job if you....

• Enjoy solving complex technical problems, even when there is no perfect solution
• Enjoy building platforms, that evolve over time and scale other teams
• Enjoy having ownership of a mission critical software
• Enjoy working on a system that enables large scale deep learning research
• Thrive in small, cross-functional teams. We like to wear many hats here!

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering backend applications using Python and/or other backend language(s) such as Java, C#, JavaScript, Go, C/C++
• 2+ years of working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• 2+ years working with common AWS or GCP services, or a similar platform
• 2+ years of being a maintainer of a heavily used library or framework

Nice to have

• 2+ years of working with accelerator backed compute (GPU or TPU)
• Experience with bazel as a build system

At AssemblyAI, our goal is to attract and retain outstanding talent from diverse backgrounds, while ensuring fair pay among our team members. Our salary ranges are determined by competitive market rates that align with our company's size, stage, and industry. It's important to note that salary is just one aspect of the comprehensive compensation package we offer.

When determining salaries, we consider various factors such as relevant experience, skill level, and qualifications evaluated during the interview process. We also strive to maintain internal equity by comparing salaries with those of peers on the team. While the salary range provided below serves as a general expectation for the posted position, we are open to considering candidates who possess more or less experience than specified in the job description. Should any updates arise regarding the expected salary range, we will communicate them accordingly.

Please note that the provided range represents the anticipated base salary for candidates in the United States. For candidates outside of this region, there may be variations in the range, which we will communicate directly to applicants.

Salary range: $140,000-$170,000 USD

Working at AssemblyAI

We are a small but mighty group of problem solvers, innovators, and experienced AI researchers with over 20 years of expertise in Machine Learning, Speech Recognition, and NLP. As a fully remote team, we’re looking for people to join our team who are ambitious, curious, and self-motivated. We put a lot of trust and autonomy into everyone on our team and want to find people who will add to our culture, not just fit in.

We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply!