Staff Engineer · AI Unit Economics · AssemblyAI

Moving past the cost-cutting narrative to build sustainable AI infrastructure.

I'm documenting my work at AssemblyAI to help engineers treat infrastructure spend as a quality constraint, rather than just an expense to be trimmed.

Caitlin Johnson

About

I'm an engineer exploring the intersection of high-scale AI infrastructure and sustainable unit economics. Currently a Staff Engineer at AssemblyAI, I'm focused on building the data models that help us understand the true cost of innovation—one GPU hour at a time.