assemblyai

Applied AI Engineer

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At a Glance

Location
New York City / San Francisco
Experience
4+ years
Compensation
to candidates. Salary range: $150,000 - $250,000 OTE AI to Interview: If you’r
Posted
2026-06-18T14:32:12-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSAzureGCPJavaJavaScriptPythonRubyTypeScript

Domain Knowledge

  • Cloud
  • Defense
  • Engineering

Requirements

by providing benchmarks, designing fair comparison tests, and helping customers evaluate our models against alternatives.

Work closely with customers to ensure they have the data and support needed to make informed decisions

Troubleshoot production issues

for customers using our streaming and async APIs, sometimes requiring you to debug code in languages you may not use daily (Java, Go, Ruby, etc.)

Provide technical guidance

4+ years of customer-facing experience in highly technical environments, requiring strong software engineering skills

Compensation & Benefits

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: $150,000 - $250,000 OTE

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Responsibilities

We're looking for an Applied AI Engineer to join our team at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and real-world customer applications.

This is a highly dynamic, customer-facing technical role where you'll build demos, troubleshoot production issues, and help customers implement our Speech AI models in creative and impactful ways.

You'll be working directly with developers and technical teams at companies ranging from early-stage startups to enterprise organizations.

Your days will involve rapid context-switching between building prototypes for new use cases, debugging urgent customer issues, and collaborating with our Sales, Success, Engineering, Product, and Research teams to ensure customers succeed with our platform.

You'll be empowered to use AI tools and modern development practices to deliver solutions quickly and effectively.

About the Company

and excited to see how customers apply our models in unexpected ways

You enjoy building relationships

with customers and representing AssemblyAI in person

(NYC or SF) and leveraging proximity to customers and the AI community

Location & Travel Expectations