# Senior Software Engineer, Inference at Assembly AI

- Company: Assembly AI
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Insight and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.assemblyai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: North America
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $225K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/assemblyai/jobs/4728911005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/assembly-ai-senior-software-engineer-inference/

## About the role

We're hiring a Software Engineer to help turn cutting-edge AI research into products our customers rely on every day. You'll sit on a fast-paced engineering team between our research org and our Applied teams, taking new model capabilities from proof of concept to robust, well-documented APIs serving production traffic at scale.

## What they're looking for

- Strong backend engineering experience, including building and supporting machine learning infrastructure and/or customer-facing APIs in production
- Comfort operating with ambiguity. Research timelines and product timelines don't always line up, and you're energized rather than frustrated by that
- Genuine curiosity about AI/ML. You don't need to be a researcher, but you should want to understand what the models are doing well enough to make good engineering decisions around them
- Strong collaboration skills. You'll be working daily with researchers, applied engineers, and sometimes customers, people with very different contexts and priorities, and the role only works if you enjoy that

Tags: Engineering