# Senior Software Engineer, Inference

Hiring organization: [AssemblyAI](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/assemblyai)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/d1b73cbd-f267-478f-8ba4-25829da3f729

Listed on AssemblyAI's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: North America
- Salary: 190000 – 225000 USD per year

## Summary

Build and optimize the infrastructure that turns AssemblyAI's voice AI research into production APIs serving hundreds of millions of inference calls monthly. This role bridges research and customers, requiring backend expertise with machine learning systems and the ability to work comfortably in the ambiguity between research prototypes and production-grade services.

_Our summary, not AssemblyAI's wording._

## Skills named

API Design, Python

## Required

- Strong backend engineering experience with production ML infrastructure or customer-facing APIs
- Ability to operate effectively with ambiguity between research and product timelines
- Genuine curiosity about AI/ML and ability to understand model behavior for engineering decisions
- Strong collaboration skills across researchers, engineers, and customers

## Nice to have

- Experience at growth-stage or scaling AI companies
- Familiarity with speech or audio processing
- Previous work turning research prototypes into production systems

Apply on AssemblyAI's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/assemblyai/jobs/4728911005