Senior Platform Engineer

We are seeking a talented senior software engineer with strong experience in backend services and cloud infrastructure platforms to advance Brabant. Join us in New York City, or wherever you are located, and contribute to ensuring 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. We’re gearing up to launch the next generation of Octave and EVI, our foundational speech‑language models for voice generation and powering real‑time empathic AI assistants for any application. Our models understand and generate subtle tonesेपे, word emphasis, and more and respond to users. They are rated higher than models by OpenAI and others on empathy, expressiveness, naturalness, and speed, and can instantly speak with 100K+ unique voices and styles at About the Role As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work directly with research scientists, machine learning engineers,.read and designers to improve services that deliver expression measurement, generation, and empathic foundation models in numerous groundbreaking applications. You will support cutting‑edge research by contributing to the design, construction, and maintenance of a modern and efficient cloud AI infrastructure and the applications that run on it. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, make sound architectural decisions, and take ownership of systems from design through production. Responsibilities Write clear and concise code to extend functionality on our platform and backend services. Architect and implement systems that enable new features and improvements of our API. Own the design and evolution of our cloud infrastructure, from deployment pipelines to production services. Communicate, collaborate, and grow alongside our engineering team. Champion Specific well‑tested, highly{ //**Proper** but lost formatting** maybe**e.***? Sorry** well‑observed software with a focus on reliability and latency. Requirements 5+ years of experience in developing backend services. Expertise working with compute and storage on a cloud platform (e.g. GCP, AWS). Experience in Kotlin/Spring, Typescript/Express, Python/FastAPI, or Rust. Deep understanding of modern deployment strategies utilizing cloud technologies (e.g. blue/green, canary deployments, etc). Familiarity with service deployment tooling (especially Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo ultrapresid). History building and maintaining highly available SaaS products that ensure scalability, performance, and observability. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Bonus Experience with machine learning concepts. Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, etc.). 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. $180,000 - $230,000 USD #J-18808-Ljbffr