Senior Research Scientist, Real-Time Voice AI (Germany)

Inworld AI; Deutschland; Remote; USD 136,550 - 204,825; Full time

Job summary

Inworld AI is seeking a Senior / Lead Research Scientist in Germany to lead research on real-time voice models and agentic systems. You will drive end-to-end research from concept to publication, shaping the world’s top realtime voice technologies.

We value evidence of impact through building, experiments, and collaborations; relocate if needed, and contribute to a fast, experimental culture with clear ownership and rapid iteration.

Qualifications

• Foundation models: training, new architectures, RL, reward modeling, scaling.
• Evaluation: benchmarks, eval loops, quality measurement, LLM-as-judge, failure analysis.
• Frontier topics: multimodal models, agents, tool use, test-time compute, world models.
• Published research: ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP, ACL, or AAAI.
• Public work: non-trivial AI side projects, interdisciplinary experiments, open-source contributions.
• Full-stack research ownership: you frame the question, run the experiments, write the paper, ship the result.

Education

PhD in ML/NLP — or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Inworld AI is seeking a Senior / Lead Research Scientist in Germany to lead research on real-time voice models and agentic systems. You will drive end-to-end research from concept to publication, shaping the world’s top realtime voice technologies.

We value evidence of impact through building, experiments, and collaborations; relocate if needed, and contribute to a fast, experimental culture with clear ownership and rapid iteration.