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Why Join Inworld
Inworld is the best-funded startup in AI and games with a $500 million valuation and backing from top tier investors including Intel Capital, Microsoft’s M12 fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Section 32, BITKRAFT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, and First Spark Ventures.
Inworld is the leading AI engine for games and interactive media. Inworld’s suite of AI components enables developers to build interactive, responsive, and personalized AI gaming experiences, orchestrate models to create intelligent game behaviors, and unlock enhanced productivity with AI-generated content. Inworld powers experiences built by Ubisoft, NVIDIA, Niantic, NetEase Games and LG, among others, and has partnerships with key industry players such as Microsoft Xbox, Epic Games, and Unity.
Inworld was recognized by CB Insights as one of the 100 most promising AI companies in the world in 2024 and was also named among LinkedIn's Top Startups of 2024 in the USA.
We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to primarily work on C++ based components, as well as Kotlin and Python based components for Inworld AI.
Responsibilities
- Building from scratch or in the early phase: high-load distributed systems, high-quality APIs, ML inference, and training infrastructure.
- Contributing to the product design and roadmap.
- Prototyping new ideas and features.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
- 3+ years experience developing software applications using the C++ programming language.
- Strong proficiency in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient C++ code.
- Extensive experience in cloud development, particularly in designing and implementing high-load services.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years professional experience with Java and/or Kotlin.
- Professional experience with Python.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Practical knowledge of cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Extensive experience in native development for Linux or Windows platforms.
- Hands-on experience in designing and developing high-load distributed systems.
- Strong fundamentals in the data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and object-oriented programming.
In-office location: Mountain View, CA, United States.
Remote location: United States.
The United States base salary range for this full-time position is between $180,000 - $260,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.
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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.
