Principal Research Scientist, Models — Real-Time AI

BITKRAFT Ventures; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 270,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

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.

We’ve raised more than $125M and work with teams across research and engineering to push the boundaries of agentic AI. We offer relocation assistance and invite you to join our Mountain View office, with a base salary range and equity benefits.

Qualifications

• Foundational ML/NLP expertise with hands-on experience in foundation models.
• Experience with evaluation loops and ML benchmarks.
• Proven publication record or equivalent practical contributions.
• Ability to own research from framing questions to publishing results.
• PhD in ML/NLP or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define research questions and design experiments to provide clear results.
• Run experiments, analyze results, and write papers.
• Ship results and contribute to open discussions to move the field forward.
• Collaborate in a cross-team environment and communicate findings.

Skills

Foundation models

Evaluation

Frontier topics

Published research

PhD in ML/NLP

Public work

Full-stack research ownership

Education

PhD in ML/NLP

Job description

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.

We’ve raised more than $125M and work with teams across research and engineering to push the boundaries of agentic AI. We offer relocation assistance and invite you to join our Mountain View office, with a base salary range and equity benefits.