Senior Software Engineer, Inference
AssemblyAI · Washington D.C.
Posted 15 days ago · $190,000 - $225,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 15 days AssemblyAI's roles stay open a median of 21 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 95% of AssemblyAI's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at AssemblyAI
- low 2 stale, 0 reposted of 19 open
- Hiring momentum
- 26 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from AssemblyAI's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for AssemblyAI.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer at AssemblyAI, you will be part of a dynamic team that bridges AI research and product development. Your responsibilities will include designing and launching customer-facing APIs, scaling inference infrastructure, and collaborating with researchers to implement new techniques. You will also gather user feedback to inform product design and contribute across the technology stack as needed.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of AssemblyAI as an employer.
What you need
- Strong backend engineering experience, including building and supporting machine learning infrastructure and/or customer-facing APIs in production.
- Comfort operating with ambiguity.
- Genuine curiosity about AI/ML.
- Strong collaboration skills.
What you get
- Salary range: $190,000 - $225,000.
Worth weighing
- No specific details on additional benefits or perks beyond salary.
- The role requires comfort with ambiguity, which may not suit all candidates.
- The company emphasizes a lean structure, which may mean less support compared to larger organizations.
Summarised from AssemblyAI's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by AssemblyAI on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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