Inworld AI

Inworld AI

Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Serving - USA

Mountain View, California, USA · Principal · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$270k-$500kDetected 106 days ago
C++Node.jsDistributed SystemsKubernetesMachine LearningAgentic AILoad BalancingResearchCollaboration

About the role

  • Today our models are the #1 ranked realtime voice models in the world.
  • They are used to power the largest consumer-facing AI applications available, across categories like health, fitness, learning, therapy, companions, customer experience and media; representing 100s of millions of end users.
  • Our work spans areas like research and development of state-of-the-art models, optimizing realtime inference, and creating best-in-class APIs and products that allow developers to engage their users.

Responsibilities

  • You can take a model from the research team, containerize it, optimize its serving, and ensure it runs reliably in production.
  • Background. PhD in CS, Physics, Math, or equivalent practical experience building backend or ML systems.
  • You don't need a roadmap to start walking; you're comfortable picking a direction and building the map as you go.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with quantization, distillation, caching strategies, continuous batching, paged attention, and speculative decoding.
  • Proficiency in C++, CUDA, Rust, or highly optimized Python.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Ray, custom load balancing, multi-GPU/multi-node inference, and reliably handling thousands of concurrent connections.

Compensation

  • The base salary range for this full-time position is $270,000 - $500,000+ bonus + equity + benefits.

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