About Inworld
Inworld is a research lab of top researchers and engineers, building the world’s top-ranked realtime voice models.
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.
We’ve raised more than $125M from Lightspeed, Section 32, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft’s M12 venture fund, Founders Fund, Meta and Stanford, among others. Our technology has powered experiences from companies such as NVIDIA, Microsoft Xbox, Niantic, Logitech Streamlabs, Wishroll, Little Umbrella and Bible Chat. We’ve also been recognized by CB Insights as one of the 100 most promising AI companies globally and have been named one of LinkedIn’s Top 10 Startups in the USA.
Your Impact
This is a founding role at a moment when realtime AI is becoming the default interface for the next wave of consumer applications, and Inworld is well-positioned to power it. You’ll shape how developers experience Inworld: build the content developers learn from, the examples they fork, and the communities that bring the next wave of builders in. Your work will turn Inworld's technical edge into developer trust, and become one of our most important distribution channels.
What You'll Do
Own the developer relations strategy end to end to grow the awareness and adoption of Inworld by new developers, and ensure every developer on Inworld has an incredible experience.
Collaborate with product and GTM to engage new and existing customers on best practices and integrations, synthesize learnings and develop our technical surfaces
Build and ship integration examples, reference architectures, and sample apps that demonstrate Inworld's TTS, STT, LLM Router, and Realtime API in real-world contexts
Create technical content that resonates with developers: tutorials, blog posts, video walkthroughs, conference talks, live demos, quickstarts and guides
Represent Inworld as a public figure in online forums, events, and leadership meetings, while developing organic growth of developer communities
Represent Inworld at conferences, hackathons, and developer events including speaking, demoing, and running workshops
Work closely with GTM and Product to surface developer feedback and advocate for the developer experience inside the company
Define and track meaningful metrics: community engagement, content performance, time-to-first-integration, and other indicators you define.
What You'll Bring
5+ years of experience in developer relations, developer advocacy, or a closely adjacent technical role
Strong hands-on coding ability, you write and ship real integration code, not just demos
Hands-on with AI native development. You build with coding agents and copilots, have opinions on which tools win for which tasks
Deep familiarity with AI/ML APIs and the real workflows around LLMs, speech, and streaming
Exceptional technical communication skills: you can write a clear tutorial, give a compelling conference talk, and explain a latency tradeoff on a live stream
Bonus Qualifications
Experience with voice AI, TTS, STT, or realtime audio
Prior experience at a high-growth startup in a founding DevRel capacity
Active presence in developer communities, open source contributions, a following, a newsletter, whatever form it takes
In-office location: Mountain View, California, United States. Candidates must be based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate (you will be working on-site in our South Bay office a few days a week).
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $220,000 - $290,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in developer relations, developer advocacy, or a closely adjacent technical role
- Strong hands-on coding ability; write and ship real integration code
- Hands-on AI-native development experience (coding agents, copilots)
- Deep familiarity with AI/ML APIs and workflows around LLMs, speech, and streaming
- Exceptional technical communication skills (tutorials, talks, live demos)
- Must be based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate and work on-site a few days a week
- Experience with voice AI, TTS, STT, or realtime audio
- Prior experience at a high-growth startup in a founding DevRel capacity
- Active presence in developer communities, open source contributions, or similar public presence
What We Do
Inworld is a fully integrated platform for AI characters that goes beyond large language models (LLMs) – by adding configurable safety, knowledge, memory, narrative controls, multimodality, and more. Inworld uses advanced AI to build generative characters whose personalities, thoughts, memories, and behaviors are designed to mimic the deeply social nature of human interaction. The Inworld platform lets you create characters with personality and contextual awareness to keep them in-world and on brand. Integrations make it easy for developers to deploy characters into immersive experiences, while scale and performance are optimized for real-time experiences. We are a team of experts that have pioneered conversational AI platforms and generative models at API.AI (acquired by Google and renamed Dialogflow), Google and DeepMind. We are continuing to build out our incredibly talented team, with experts in generative language models, emotions, speech synthesis, multimodal interaction, design, and 3D animation. Inworld is backed by top-tier investors including Section 32, Intel Capital, BITKRAFT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Spark Ventures, The Venture Reality Fund, CRV, Meta, Microsoft’s M12 fund, Micron Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, NTT Docomo Ventures, and SK Telecom Venture Capital. Inworld was one of six companies selected for the 2022 Disney Accelerator. Prominent angels include Twitch Co-Founder, Kevin Lin; Oculus Co-Founder, Nate Mitchell; Animoca Brands Co-Founder, Yat Siu; The Sandbox Co-Founder, Sebastien Borget and NaHCO3, the family office of Riot Games Co-Founder, Marc Merrill.
