Assembly AI

Lead AI Platform Engineer

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AssemblyAI is seeking a Lead AI Platform Engineer to technically lead their data and AI training infrastructure team. This role involves shaping the vision, architecture, and capabilities of their AI research platform, enhancing infrastructure for improved training velocity and research outcomes. The engineer will design scalable data platforms, build efficient data pipelines using GCP services, optimize resource allocation, and advance technical excellence by adopting cutting-edge ML tools and streamlining workflows. It's a cross-functional role requiring collaboration with the Research team and senior leadership.

<h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">About AssemblyAI</h2><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">At AssemblyAI, we’re building at the forefront of Speech AI, creating powerful models for speech-to-text and speech understanding available through a straightforward API. With more than 200,000 developers building on our API and over 5,000 paying customers, AssemblyAI is helping unlock and support the next generation of powerful, meaningful products built with AI.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">Progress in AI is moving at an unprecedented pace– and our team is made up of experts in AI research that are focused on making sure that our customers are able to stay on the cutting edge, with production-ready AI models that are constantly updating and improving as our team continues to improve accuracy, latency, and what’s possible with Speech AI. Our models consistently rank highest in industry benchmarks for accuracy, outperforming models from Google and Amazon, and up to 30% fewer hallucinations than OpenAI’s Whisper. Our models power more than 2 billion end-user experiences each day, helping companies better understand customer feedback, run more productive meetings with automated meeting notes, and helping improve childhood literacy via ed tech tools.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">We’ve raised funding by leading investors including Accel, Insight Partners, Y Combiner’s AI Fund, Patrick and John Collision, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross. We’re a remote team looking to build one of the next great AI companies, and are looking for driven, talented people to help us get there!</p><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">About the Role</h2><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">We're looking for a Lead AI Platform Engineer to drive the technical direction of our data and AI training infrastructure team. This person will have a significant opportunity to shape the vision, architecture, and capabilities of our AI research platform. You'll be responsible for enhancing and scaling our infrastructure to dramatically improve training velocity and research outcomes.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">As the technical lead, you'll bring deep expertise in both AI infrastructure and software engineering best practices. You should be passionate about developing scalable systems, optimizing workflows, and engineering excellence through hands-on development, code reviews and architectural planning. You'll directly lead high-impact projects that are critical to our ability to train models at scale.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">This is a highly cross-functional role requiring close collaboration with our Research team and senior leadership, so you should excel at working with diverse stakeholders and communicating complex technical concepts clearly to different audiences. While you won't have direct reports, you'll provide technical guidance that influences the entire organization's approach to AI infrastructure.</p><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">What You'll Do</h2><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Architect Next-Gen AI Training Infrastructure</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Design scalable, future-proof data platforms optimized for AI research workloads</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Build efficient data pipelines leveraging GCP's advanced services</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Implement cost-effective storage and monitoring solutions for ML at scale</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Create flexible training resource management with intelligent queuing</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Optimize resource allocation for maximum training efficiency</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Participate in on-call rotation to ensure system reliability</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Advance Technical Excellence</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Lead adoption of cutting-edge ML tools and frameworks, continuously evaluating and integrating best-in-class solutions</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Streamline existing workflows while introducing new tooling that further reduces complexity</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Enhance our tooling and documentation to accelerate team velocity and maintain our competitive edge</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Implement guardrails for cost, quality, and performance</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Identify and eliminate technical bottlenecks in the training pipeline</li></ul><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">What You’ll Need</h2><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">8+ years of experience in AI/ML Infrastructure, Research Platform Engineering, or related software engineering roles</li><li class="leading-relaxed">3+ years of professional experience working as an AI data and infrastructure setting or similar position most recently at a startup</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong proficiency in Python and SQL</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Deep expertise with GCP services like BigTable, BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow … etc</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience with distributed processing frameworks (Apache Beam, PySpark, … etc)</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Composer, Astronomer)</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Understanding of distributed training systems and data loading optimization</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience with experiment tracking and training tooling</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Ability to thrive in a startup environment with aggressive prioritization and rapidly changing business requirements</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Nice to Haves</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience working in the Speech AI/Audio ML space</li><li class="leading-relaxed">AWS Experience</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Evaluation metrics for AI/ML models</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience with ML model evaluation frameworks and automated testing pipelines</li></ul><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">Pay Transparency:</h2><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">AssemblyAI strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size, stage, and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefit, and other reward opportunities we provide.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level, qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">The provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range which will be communicated to candidates throughout the interview process.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">Salary range: $230,000 - $275,000</p><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">Working at AssemblyAI</h2><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">We are a small but mighty group of startup veterans 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 lead with integrity. We’re still in the early days of AI and of AssemblyAI’s journey, and are looking for teammates who won’t just fit in, but will help us define and build our company culture.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. No matter your 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!</p><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">Using AI to Interview:</h2><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">If you’re selected for an interview, please review this <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/candidate-ai-guidance" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">resource</a> to better understand how AssemblyAI approaches the use of AI in our interview process.</p><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Keep Exploring AssemblyAI:</h3><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@AssemblyAI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">Check us out on YouTube!</a></p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed"><a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/research/universal-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">Learn more about AI models for speech recognition</a></p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed"><a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/products/core-transcription" target="<em>blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">Core Transcription</a> | <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/products/audio-intelligence" target="</em>blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">Audio Intelligence</a> | <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/lemur-early-access/" target="<em>blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">LeMUR</a> | <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/playground/source" target="</em>blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">Try the Playground</a></p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed"><a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/announcing-our-50m-series-c-to-build-superhuman-speech-ai-models/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">Our $50M Series C fundraise</a></p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">Create a Job Alert</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">Interested in building your career at AssemblyAI? 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