Senior Software Engineer, Inference
AssemblyAI · Chicago · $190k–$225k
The role
AssemblyAI is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to bridge research and applied teams, turning new model capabilities into robust APIs. The role involves scaling inference infrastructure, collaborating with researchers, and contributing across the stack. The company emphasizes a lean, fast-moving environment with significant ownership.
- Pay
- $190k–$225k
- Location
- Chicago
- Level
- Senior
What we know that the posting doesn’t say
- Seen todaystill listed on the employer’s careers page
- Posted 7 days agothe first time we saw it
About AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI builds voice AI models that power voice applications, processing over 2 million hours of audio daily and handling more than 1 million API calls per day. The company is capital-efficient with under 100 employees and serves thousands of customers.
What you would do
- Design and ship customer-facing APIs for new model capabilities
- Scale inference infrastructure to support over one million API users
- Partner with researchers to productionize new techniques
- Work with customers and applied teams to inform product design
- Contribute across backend services, inference infrastructure, SDKs, and tooling
Must have
- Strong backend engineering experience with machine learning infrastructure
- Experience building and supporting customer-facing APIs in production
- Comfort operating with ambiguity
- Genuine curiosity about AI/ML
- Strong collaboration skills with researchers and engineers
Key skills
- backend engineering
- machine learning infrastructure
- customer-facing apis
- inference infrastructure
- ai/ml
- sdks
- internal tooling
Why AssemblyAI AssemblyAI builds the best-in-class Voice AI models powering the next generation of voice applications. Our models serve 600M+ inference calls monthly, process 1M+ hours of audio daily, and power 2 billion+ end-user experiences. The Voice AI space is at an inflection point; we’re loo…
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