Open Role at Hume AI (Nyc San Jose, OR)

Hume AI· Nyc San Jose, OR· $130k–$230k·4h ago

Role details

Salary

$130k–$230k

Work type

Remote

Job description

Our team is always on the lookout for trailblazing scientists, engineers, and strategic thinkers who are passionate about the science of emotion and the future of beneficial AI. If you’re interested in joining the effort, simply fill out this application and we’ll reach out if there’s a good fit!

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.

About Us

Hume AI is a Series B startup dedicated to building artificial intelligence that is directly optimized for human well-being. As the first company to release speech language models, we’re focused on expanding our research to encompass audio understanding models and evaluation platforms for enterprises.

Our goal is to enable a future in which technology draws on an understanding of human emotional expression to better serve human goals. As part of our mission, we also conduct groundbreaking scientific research, publish in leading scientific journals like Nature, and support a non-profit, The Hume Initiative, that has released the first concrete ethical guidelines for empathic AI (www.thehumeinitiative.org). You can learn more about us on our website (hume.ai) and read about us in WIRED, Forbes, and Venturebeat.

Application Note

Please apply only to the position that best aligns with your qualifications. If you submit multiple applications or have applied within the past 6 months, only your initial submission will be considered.

Annual Salary $130,000—$230,000 USD

Why work at Hume AI

Culture: Mission-driven research lab focused on building AI for human well-being; collaborative and intellectually rigorous environment
Remote/Hybrid: Remote-friendly with flexible options; hubs in New York (HQ), San Jose, and remote worldwide
Benefits & Perks: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; meaningful equity packages; annual learning stipend for conferences and courses; flexible PTO; regular team offsites
Engineering Culture: Emphasis on cutting-edge research, open-source contributions, and cross-disciplinary work (AI, speech, emotion science); roles include AI Researchers, Senior/Staff AI Research Engineers, and Senior Platform Engineers

About Hume AI

Core Business

Primary industry: Research Services / Emotion AI / Voice AI
Target customers: B2B (developers, enterprises, healthcare, finance, creative industries)
Mission: “to ensure that artificial intelligence is developed in ways that are beneficial to humanity” and “serve human goals and emotional well-being”

Products & Services

Empathic Voice Interface (EVI): A real-time, emotionally intelligent voice AI that measures vocal modulations and responds with a speech-language model trained on millions of human interactions. Supports interruptibility, back-channeling, and expressive instruction following. (Closed-source, API)
Octave TTS: A text-to-speech system built on LLM intelligence, enabling context-aware, expressive speech synthesis with voice design, cloning, and modulation. (Closed-source, API)
Expression Measurement Models: State-of-the-art models for voice, face, and language that capture hundreds of dimensions of human expression (48+ emotions, 600+ voice descriptors). Available via API for batch and streaming analysis. (Closed-source, API)
Human Feedback API: Allows developers to create and manage evaluation studies with a worldwide pool of vetted participants for preference data. (API)
Open-Source Models & Datasets: Publicly available speech-language models, datasets (e.g., TADA), and evaluation tools for the community. (Open-source)

Market Standing

Valuation: Not disclosed
Total Funding: $75.7M (LinkedIn) / $74.02M (CB Insights) – conflicting reports; both cited
Key Metric: Annual estimated revenue of $1.9M (LinkedIn estimate)
Notable Investors: Aegis Ventures (Seed), Union Square Ventures (Series A), EQT Ventures (Series B); also includes participation from other investors across rounds
Growth Signals: Series B of $50M raised in March 2024; 43 employees (as of mid-2026) with a monthly growth rate of +6%; operates in 7 countries; recent launch of Octave 2 (preview) and EVI 4-mini with expanded language support and lower latency

Competitive Advantages

Emotional Intelligence: Decades of research in multimodal emotional intelligence (10+ years) and semantic space theory pioneered by Alan Cowen (Chief Scientific Advisor)
Speech-Language Model: Unique integration of language modeling and TTS for expressive, context-aware speech that reduces hallucinations and latency
Open-Source Leadership: Releases state-of-the-art models and datasets to the community, fostering adoption and trust
Fine-Grained Emotion Capture: 48+ emotions, 600+ voice descriptors, and support for 50+ languages
Domain-Specific Datasets: Tailored datasets for healthcare, finance, and conversational audio

Strategic Focus

Current Priorities: Advancing empathic voice AI with lower latency and broader language support; deepening developer ecosystem via APIs and SDKs; expanding into enterprise use cases (call centers, coaching, digital companions, health monitoring)
Direction: Continue open-sourcing research while commercializing closed-source APIs; grow the research team and platform engineering capabilities

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