# Staff / Principal Software Engineer - USA at Inworld

- Company: Inworld
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://inworld.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Mountain View, California, USA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $280K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-04-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inworld-ai/bc788f3f-bab1-4f99-a068-22f59e818334
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/inworld-staff-principal-software-engineer-usa/

## About the role

Inworld recently launched a few exciting new products ( Inworld TTS , Inworld STT , Speech-to-Speech / Realtime API and Inworld Router ) for consumer AI applications, and we're looking for an ambitious and capable Staff/Principal Backend Engineer to join us and help take the Inworld AI platform even farther. Here is what you are going to work on:

## What they're looking for

- Must Haves
- Excellent programming skills and experience in a statically typed backend programming language, preferably Go, Python, C++ or Rust
- Experience developing and deploying cloud-based services to at least hundreds of qps (preferably more)
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
- Hands-on experience with caching (Redis or Memcached), pubsub/queues, data pipelines (Flink, Beam), and Cloud storage
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, can collaborate and coordinate with other roles and engineer with ease, trusted and well-regarded teammate

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