Realtime TTS and STT models, LLM serving, and the inference behind both, all through modular APIs. Customers cut voice and AI costs 40% to 95% after moving to Inworld. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed and CRV.
About the role
We're looking for a Founding AI Solutions Engineer who will sit at the intersection of sales, product, and engineering — and become the technical backbone of our revenue team. You'll work directly with the senior leadership and our GTM team to help enterprise and developer customers go from "this sounds interesting" to "this is in production."
What they're looking for
- Experience with voice AI, TTS, STT, or real-time audio and speech systems
- Background in gaming, CCaaS, or media and entertainment — our top customer verticals
- Familiarity with on-premise and edge deployment patterns (containerization, model serving, quantization)
- Experience with WebSocket/WebRTC or real-time streaming infrastructure
- Prior experience at a high-growth startup or as a founder/operator
- Experience with modern GTM tooling (Clay, n8n, Zapier, etc.)
More about this role
Inworld is a research lab and inference provider focused on realtime AI for consumer-facing applications. We build first-party speech models, serve LLMs, and run the inference behind modular APIs designed for high-volume, realtime workloads.
Hundreds of millions of users interact with Inworld powered apps every day and we serve over 10 trillion LLM tokens per month. Our models and infrastructure support consumer applications across companions, healthcare, fitness, education, media, and more. Our work spans model research, realtime inference, large-scale serving infrastructure, and the APIs developers use to bring these capabilities into production.
We’ve raised more than $125M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Section 32, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft’s M12 venture fund, Founders Fund, Meta, Stanford, and others. Our technology has powered experiences from companies including NVIDIA, Microsoft Xbox, Niantic, Logitech Streamlabs, Wishroll, Little Umbrella, and Bible Chat. Inworld has also been recognized by CB Insights as one of the 100 most promising AI companies globally and named one of LinkedIn’s Top 10 Startups in the USA.
We're looking for a Founding AI Solutions Engineer who...
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