Who We Are
Humane is a team of proven industry experts who have invented, built, and shipped category-defining hardware and software products to billions of people across the globe. We're known for building the audacious, ambitious, and the impossible, and we're doing it again. Our vision for the next shift between humans and computing requires innovation across multiple emerging technologies in hardware and software, from devices to cloud services.
About the Role
Humane’s AI Platform team pioneers innovation across consumer and enterprise applications, leveraging the power of cloud-driven inference and on-device intelligence. As the Senior Engineering Manager of AI Platform, you will lead a highly skilled and collaborative team in building robust systems, including our AI SDK, context management frameworks, advanced personalization strategies, and inference solutions for speech and language models. This role calls for a passion for cutting-edge technologies, an aptitude for solving complex problems, and the ability to design modular, distributed systems that redefine human-computer interaction.
What You’ll Do
- Build and lead the AI Platform team, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing culture.
- Design and implement systems that enable seamless personalization and intelligent agent orchestration across cloud and on-device environments.
- Evaluate and integrate third-party large language models (LLMs) and APIs as they emerge (e.g., Claude, OpenAI Voice API).
- Drive innovation in optimizing latency, balancing trade-offs between on-device and cloud inference for multiple speech and language models.
- Develop and maintain a scalable, high-performance AI SDK tailored to both consumer and enterprise applications.
- Address ambiguous and challenging AI problems, from context management to prompt optimization, for first-of-its-kind usage models.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create novel user experiences and define technical strategies.
Essential Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience with programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, or similar.
- 5+ years in a technical leadership or management role, guiding diverse and distributed teams.
- Expertise in building scalable, AI-driven solutions for both cloud and on-device environments.
- Proven experience integrating LLMs or other machine learning models into real-world, production-level products.
- Strong iterative development mindset, with a sense of ownership and accountability for project success.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across technical and non-technical domains.
- Hands-on experience in voice technologies, personalization strategies, or prompt engineering.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems and networked devices.
- Expertise in latency optimization, memory architecture, and cloud-device orchestration.
- Solid background in open-source machine learning or AI technologies.
Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)
- The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills
- At Humane, you'll enjoy benefits that include health & wellness and work/life balance offerings. Our portfolio of benefits include: comprehensive healthcare insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, and a 401K plan
- Humane employees also enjoy generous paid time off and leave programs, commuter benefits, team events, snacks and other perks
Why Humane?
- Develop cutting edge technologies in a creative and innovative environment
- Imagine new opportunities in areas that matter and will impact the world you live in
- Be a part of a high performing team of the world’s best innovators and executors
- Flexible work arrangements to support you in working in the way that you work best
- Our values: trust truth +joy
At Humane, diversity is important to us.
Humane is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion (including, but not necessarily limited to, religious creed, dress, and grooming practices), citizenship, marital status, age, national origin, place of birth, height, weight, ancestry, mental or physical disability, genetic information, medical condition, U.S. (state and federal) military and veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex, gender, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical condition), or any other characteristics protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws (“protected characteristics” or “protected categories”). Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and ordinances, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. At Humane, building a healthy and safe workplace is core to our mission. We prohibit harassment of any kind.
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