What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineering Manager, AI Platform position at Humane USA?
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
Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)
Why Humane?
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.
