Internship - Frontend Engineer (Summer 2024) (NYC) at Hume AI

We are seeking a Frontend Engineering Intern to join our team in New York City. You'll work with machine learning engineers and AI researchers to improve our web applications, focusing on AI-powered solutions for emotion understanding to build empathy in AI.

About Us

Hume AI is an AI research lab and startup that provides the AI toolkit to measure, understand, and improve how technology affects human emotion. Where other AI companies see only words, we see the other half of human communication: subtle tones of voice, word emphasis, facial expression, and more, along with the reactions of listeners. These behaviors reveal our preferences—whether we find things interesting or boring; satisfying or frustrating; funny, eloquent, or dubious. Having been trained with billions of human expressions as feedback, our LLMs will serve as better question answerers, copywriters, tutors, call center agents, and more, even in text-only interfaces.

Our goal is to enable a future in which technology draws on an understanding of human emotional expression to better serve human goals and emotional well-being. We currently provide API access to our expression measurement models to researchers and developers building better healthcare solutions, digital assistants, communication tools, and more, who work with our AI tools to optimize their applications for users’ preferences and values. As part of our mission, we also conduct groundbreaking scientific research, publish in leading scientific journals like Nature, and support a non-profit, The Hume Initiative, that has released the first concrete ethical guidelines for empathic AI (www.thehumeinitiative.org). You can learn more about us on our website (https://hume.ai/) and read about us in Axios and The Washington Post. 

About the Role

As a Frontend Engineering Intern, you will work closely with our team of machine learning engineers, AI researchers, and designers to improve our frontend web application. You will be involved in the engineering process, gaining hands-on experience building AI-powered solutions. This internship is a full-time, 3 month role, with the expectation that you will be working in person in our NYC office. Ideal candidates include new graduates or candidates taking time off school, but individuals from all backgrounds are welcome to apply.

Requirements

• Strong foundations in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and React

• Comfort with the Javascript ecosystem and popular frontend libraries

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

  
  

Bonus

• Prior examples of projects using TypeScript

• Experience with development and testing tools such as Storybook, Jest, or Playwright

• Familiarity with graphics libraries such as Three.js or WebGL

• Familiarity with Git or other version control software
  
  

This is a paid internship opportunity with compensation ranging from $40-$60/hour.