Staff Backend Engineer, Inworld AI
C++
$180-260k
+ Bonus + Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
AI-powered characters for virtual environments
Open for applications
AI-powered characters for virtual environments
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$180-260k
+ Bonus + Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To redefine how people interact with technology and brands in a way that feels human.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Professional experience with Python
Desirable
- 3+ years professional experience with Java and/or Kotlin
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Dialogue writing for video games has traditionally been a matter of branching conversations based on player input, but this is a time-consuming and complicated process. In modern virtual environments which can contain thousands of characters, the need to save on costs means that conversations with many characters can be shallow and repetitive. Inworld AI's solution allows for the creation of unique and flexible interactions for even the most minor characters, based on just a few descriptive sentences.
As a novel application of AI to the games industry Inworld has grown rapidly, closing a seed financing round in 2021 and releasing its first product before being selected to join the 2022 Disney Accelerator. While the functionality of AI characters in a major release has yet to be tested, early signs for the company have been promising and it has attracted a major hire in John Gaeta (of Matrix fame) as Chief Creative Officer.
Inworld AI has recently closed another major round of funding, which it will use for product development and hiring. While it has yet to announce a pricing structure for its product, it is already looking at applications outside gaming and the metaverse, aiming at entertainment more broadly, sales, marketing, and education as just a few possible areas for expansion.
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back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2023
$50m
SERIES A
Aug 2022
$50m
SERIES A
Total funding: $117m
Company benefits
- Remote friendly: Work from home in the US or Canada, or from our office in Mountain View, California. It’s up to you
- Flexible PTO: We offer flexible paid time off in the US and Canada. And we actually want you to take it! Most of us take between 3-5 weeks vacation a year
- Medical, dental, and mental health: In the US, we offer generous and comprehensive medical with mental health benefits, dental, and vision plans. We offer supplementary health benefits to Canadian employees
- Flexible work hours: As long as you attend necessary meetings, it doesn’t matter when you get your work done. Want to work at 11:00 pm? Great!
- Parental leave: Leave varies by country, but if you’re in the US, receive up to thirteen weeks off with 100% pay when you welcome a new baby to your family
Company values
- Respect the customer: We get to know our customers’ goals and make them our own. We build magical experiences that are simple to use and improve our customers’ businesses
- Respect the opportunity: We focus on outcomes rather than activity. We don’t choose between speed and quality — we achieve both by focusing on the work that matters. Our products serve society in ways that are helpful, and never harmful
- Respect the user: We continually work to earn our users’ trust by protecting their personal information, privacy, and security
- Respect each other: We appreciate and celebrate each other for our contributions. We trust our teammates and respect each other's perspectives, regardless of titles
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
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Leadership
Ilya Gelfenbeyn
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founded API.AI (now known as Google Dialogflow), a developer platform for building conversational experiences, and served as its CEO before Google acquired the company in 2016. The company also built Assistant.ai, the highest-rated independent voice assistant in the world with 40M+ users. Ilya was also the Founding Head of the Google Assistant Investments program at Google.
Michael Ermolenko
(Co-Founder & CTO)Michael has extensive experience in leading AI teams and led Machine Learning Development at API.ai and the Dialogflow NLU/AI team at Google.
Kylan Gibbs
(Co-Founder & CEO)Kylan has a background in turning advanced AI into products that naturally interact with humans. They came from DeepMind, where they led products for Conversational AI and Generative Models. Prior, Kylan worked on enterprise Machine Learning projects at Bain & Company.
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