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# Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Machine Learning

- **Company:** Hume AI
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Information Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, NumPy, Tensorflow, Rust (Programming Language), Cloud Platform System, Pytorch, Large Language Models, Backend, Kotlin, Pandas, Scikit Learn, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Xgboost, Machine Learning Operations, Data Pipelines, Docker
- **Published:** July 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2619555c26e46a9a

## About the Role

Hume AI is seeking a talented senior software engineer with experience in backend services and ML infrastructure who is interested in working with our team to build state-of-the-art audio models and evaluation tools. 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., * Expertise in the Python ecosystem and popular ML libraries and tools (e.g. PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, XGBoost, sklearn, pandas, numpy).

 * Experience building and deploying models for inference services.
 * Experience writing backend services in multiple languages (e.g. Kotlin, Go, Rust, Java, C++).
 * Understanding of core ML concepts including model architecture, training, and evaluation.
 * Expertise working with storage and compute on a cloud platform (e.g.Google Cloud, AWS).
 * Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Bonus

 * Familiarity with data engineering principles and/or building large-scale data pipelines.
 * Familiarity with building and deploying LLM-integrated products.
 * Experience working at the intersection of machine learning research and engineering.
 * Understanding of modern deployment strategies utilizing cloud technologies. (e.g. blue/green, canary deployments, etc).
 * Experience using service deployment tooling (e.g. Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Argo).

## Description

We are looking for an experienced and motivated senior engineer with experience in backend services and ML infrastructure. In this role you will help us integrate cutting edge AI models into services and toolkits for researchers and developers. You will work closely with research scientists and other engineers to build new capabilities into the Hume platform, and you will have the opportunity to take part in a wide range of engineering initiatives across backend applications, cloud infrastructure, and the ML lifecycle, including evaluation and deployment at scale.


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