About the role:

AssemblyAI is growing quickly, and we’re searching for a Speech Researcher specializing in Speech Technology to join our Speech team! With significant investment and strong leadership to fuel our growth, it’s the perfect time to join AssemblyAI.

What You’ll Do:

• Execute ambitious research projects that have the potential for a high impact on AssemblyAI’s products and services, as well as on external research and technology communities
• Collaborate with senior researchers and the technology leadership team to effectively execute those research projects and communicate the progresses of the projects
• Engage with research communities through activities such as publishing experimental results or participating in conferences
• Stay up-to-date on the latest research in the speech domain and share this knowledge across the company
• Replicate and examine state-of-the-art speech models based on conference/journal publications
• Collaborate with the engineering team to deploy new models into production

What You’ll Need:

• PhD in Computer Science or a related field; or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field plus equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of experience in speech research based on deep learning or machine learning in either an academic or industry setting. Specific research topics include, but are not limited to:
• ASR (e.g., model architecture, ASR robustness).
• Language modeling
• Speaker modeling (e.g., speaker verification, speaker identification, speaker diarization)
• Self-supervised learning for speech or speech-text
• Multilingual speech modeling (multilingual ASR, speech translation, language identification)
• Applications of ASR (e.g., spoken dialogue modeling, speech summarization)
• Paralinguistics (e.g., speech emotion recognition)
• A track record of widely recognized research publications at leading conferences
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in technical matters

Nice to Have:

• 2+ years experience in applied research in the speech or related industry
• Demonstrated ability to commercialize research results

Pay Transparency:

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, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and 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.

Lastly, 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 again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $140K - $170K+

About the role:

AssemblyAI is growing quickly, and we’re searching for a Senior Researcher specializing in NLP Modeling to join our NLP team! With significant investment and strong leadership to fuel our growth, it’s the perfect time to join AssemblyAI.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide scientific leadership on high-impact ambitious research projects
• Ensure we are performing sound scientific research that is of publication quality
• Stay up-to-date on the latest research in the NLU domains and share this knowledge with the team
• Replicate state-of-the-art Deep Learning models based on conference/journal publications
• Manage research project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Collaborate with engineering to productionize and release new models to production

What You’ll Need:

• Master's degree in Machine Learning or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years experience in Machine Learning research
• 4+ years experience in Deep Learning research in either the ASR of NLU domain
• Track record of conference or journal publications
• 2+ years experience in industry applied research in ASR or NLU

Nice to Have:

• PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field
• 1+ year of experience mentoring junior researchers on doing research and having it published

Pay Transparency:

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, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and 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.

Lastly, 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 again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $170K - $230K

About the role:

AssemblyAI is growing quickly, and we’re searching for a Senior Researcher, Speech specializing in Speech Technology to join our Speech team! With significant investment and strong leadership to fuel our growth, it’s the perfect time to join AssemblyAI.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide scientific leadership on ambitious research projects that have the potential for a high impact on AssemblyAI’s products and services, as well as on external research and technology communities
• Engage with research communities through activities such as publishing experimental results or participating in conferences
• Execute those research projects in a scientifically sound manner
• Stay up-to-date on the latest research in the speech domain and share this knowledge across the company
• Replicate and examine state-of-the-art speech models based on conference/journal publications
• Collaborate with the technology leadership team to prioritize the research agenda, define the scopes of research projects, and take charge of their execution
• Collaborate with the engineering team to deploy new models into production

What You’ll Need:

• PhD in Computer Science or a related field; or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field plus equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience in speech research based on deep learning or machine learning in either an academic or industry setting specific research topics include, but are not limited to:
  • ASR (e.g., model architecture, ASR robustness, acoustic/language modeling).
  • Speaker modeling (e.g., speaker verification, speaker identification, speaker diarization)
  • Self-supervised learning for speech or speech-text
  • Multilingual speech modeling (multilingual ASR, speech translation, language identification)
  • Applications of ASR (e.g., spoken dialogue modeling, speech summarization)
  • Paralinguistics (e.g., speech emotion recognition)
• A track record of widely recognized research publications at leading conferences; or a demonstrated ability to commercialize research results
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in technical matters

Nice to Have:

• 2+ years experience in applied research in the speech or related industry
• Experience of mentoring junior researchers or PhD students in conducting research and getting it published

Pay Transparency:

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, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and 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.

Lastly, 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 again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $170K - $230K

About the Role:

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design and implement solutions that leverage a small team, across Research Engineering and Product Engineering at AssemblyAI. This person should have a demonstrated track record of developing longer term, adaptable solutions that span multiple teams, and require multiple engineers to implement (i.e. something larger than a single engineer can take on). The candidate must have a strong background in software engineering, and also have familiarity or experience with machine learning code and infrastructure.

What You'll Do:

• Interface with other senior roles on other teams
• (e.g. Research, Research Engineering, Product Engineering, Product)
• Collaborate with stakeholders on the designed solutions
• Mentor junior engineers by setting a strong example
• Design and implement new API features and endpoints
• Design and implement highly scalable AI experimentation frameworks
• Design and implement automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines
• Instrument systems with metrics, tracing, and logging
• Refactor applications to eliminate tech debt

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years of professional experience building backend applications using Go or Python
• 5+ years of working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• 5+ years working with common AWS or GCP services
• 2+ years developing REST APIs in frameworks like Django, Flask, Tornado, Fiber or FastAPI

Pay Transparency:

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, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and 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.

Lastly, 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 again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $170k-$230k

About the role:

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design and implement solutions that leverage a small team, across Research Engineering and Product Engineering at AssemblyAI. This person should have a demonstrated track record of developing longer term, adaptable solutions that span multiple teams, and require multiple engineers to implement (i.e. something larger than a single engineer can take on). The candidate must have a strong background in software engineering, and also have familiarity or experience with machine learning code and infrastructure.

What You’ll Do:

• Interface with other senior roles on other teams
• (e.g. Research, Research Engineering, Product Engineering, and Product)
• Collaborate with stakeholders on the designed solutions
• Mentor junior engineers by setting a strong example
• Design and implement new API features and endpoints
• Design and implement highly scalable AI experimentation frameworks
• Design and implement automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines
• Instrument systems with metrics, tracing, and logging
• Refactor applications to eliminate tech debt

Minimum Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience building backend applications using either JVM-based language (Java / Kotlin / Scala) OR 5+ years of experience in Python
• 2+ years professional experience in Python OR Java
• working knowledge of common cloud infra AWS/GCP
• 3+ years experience designing high-volume data processing pipelines

Preferred Requirements:

• 2+ years working in a monorepo with a powerful build system such as Bazel or Buck
• 1+ years defining, executing and landing a mid-term (2+ quarter) vision for a single project or team
• 2+ years designing production critical systems
• [A - TL] Experience setting roadmap direction with adjacent teams/systems
• 2+ years experience mentoring more junior engineers via design doc reviews and code reviews
• 2+ years using monitoring, alerting, logging systems (eg Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, ELK/Kibana)
• 2+ years designing continuous integration and delivery pipelines
• 2+ years of experience using task tracking systems such as Jira
• Experience scaling systems to new orders of magnitudes of traffic

Pay Transparency:

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, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and 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.

Lastly, 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 again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $170k-$230k+

About the role:

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead to organize/manage technical projects and set strategic direction within the technology organization. This is a cross-functional role that requires leadership, communication and collaboration across the technology organization.

What You’ll Do:

• Guide the technical direction for a small team (3-5) engineers
• Interface with other senior roles on other teams (e.g. Research, Research Engineering, Product Engineering, Product)
• Spend about 50% of your time working as an IC (designs, implementation)
• Collaborate with stakeholders on the designed solutions
• Help your manager grow the team through hiring and mentoring more junior engineers
• Drive alignment among adjacent teams and projects
• Project management, time management, and prioritizing work across the team
• Technical product management, breaking down projects into milestones, and managing the scope

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years of professional experience building backend applications using Go or Python
• 5+ years of working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• 5+ years working with common AWS or GCP services
• 3+ years of experience leading technical projects

Pay Transparency:

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, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and 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.

Lastly, 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 again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $170k-$230k

At AssemblyAI, we’re creating a leading Applied AI company by building powerful models to transcribe and understand audio data, exposed through a straightforward web API.

Progress in AI is moving at an unprecedented pace–we keep our pulse on the latest developments and breakthroughs in AI research and use these advances to inform our production-ready AI models. Our Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) models already outperform companies like Google, AWS, and Microsoft - which is why hundreds of companies and thousands of developers are using our API to transcribe and understand millions of videos, podcasts, phone calls, and Zoom meetings every day.

We’ve raised funding by leading investors including Accel, Insight Partners, Y Combinator’s AI Fund, Patrick and John Collision, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross. As part of a huge and emerging market, AssemblyAI is well on its way to becoming the leader in applied AI.

Join our world-class, remote team and help us build an iconic AI company!

About the role:

We’re looking for a Technical Program Manager to be the liaison between our Product and Technology teams. This person will drive projects and program execution, ensure alignment with the overall roadmap, and champion operational efficiency. The Technical Program Manager will be a trusted advisor to Product and Engineering teams and will drive collaboration and communication across the organization.

This is a cross-functional role that requires …

What You’ll Do:

• Project and program execution
• Drive projects and programs through the product development lifecycle
• Coach the project team to define major milestones and estimate target completion dates
• Communicate project and program progress, risks, and dependencies
• Roadmap alignment
• Understand the business impact and priorities of various projects to facilitate tradeoff discussions
• Facilitate quarterly planning process across Product and Technology teams
• Operational efficiency
• Champion process development and improvement
• Encourage collaboration, communication, continuous learning, and adaptation

What You’ll Need:

• 4+ years of Project/Program Management with 2+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager
• Experience working closely with the business & internal engineering teams
• Experience working with software engineers and/or data scientists
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment
• Strong project management skills with the ability to prioritize competing demands
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to influence without direct authority
• Experience with Jira is a plus
• Experience in a remote environment a plus

Pay Transparency:

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, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and 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.

Lastly, 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 again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $123,000-$137,000

About the role:

We’re looking for a Technical Program Manager, Data to define and drive the execution strategy for AI data collection. This person will work closely with our Research and Engineering teams to identify our current and future AI data requirements, while also actively working to identify and work with vendors to fulfill these requirements. This Technical Program Manager, Data will be responsible for sourcing, negotiating and overseeing the intake and evaluation of datasets that feed our platforms. As the first hire of its kind at AssemblyAI, this person will collaboratively define the team goals and growth needs as we scale.

What You’ll Do:

• Program and project execution
• Drive data acquisition projects and programs through the product development lifecycle
• Gather requirements from internal stakeholders, collaboratively propose solutions, and coordinate with internal and external resources on execution
• Communicate project and program timelines, progress, risks, and dependencies
• Data Sourcing
• Work closely with our Research and Engineering teams to identify our current and future training & validation data requirements
• Negotiate terms, conditions, and costs associated with acquiring datasets
• Build and maintain relationships with data vendors and select customers to encourage continued collaboration
• Data Management and Labeling
• Oversee data collection, validation, and preprocessing to ensure it is fit for use
• Supervise the data labeling process with internal or external resources as needed—ensuring accuracy and consistency
• Manage, train, and evaluate labellers, providing feedback and ensuring high-quality annotations

What You’ll Need:

• 2+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager, Data or equivalent role
• 5+ years combined experience in Project Management or Technical roles
• Strong understanding of AI/ML training data concepts, requirements & lifecycle
• Strong project management skills with the ability to prioritize competing demands
• Experience working closely with the business & internal engineering teams
• Experience working with vendors and negotiating engagement terms
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Jira is a plus
• Experience in a remote environment a plus

Pay Transparency:

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, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and 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.

Lastly, 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 again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $160,000-$170,000