Staff / Principal AI Researcher, Inworld AI
USA
$240-385k
AI-powered characters for virtual environments
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AI-powered characters for virtual environments
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-385k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To redefine how people interact with technology and brands in a way that feels human.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking Staff and Principal level AI Researchers with extensive experience in researching, designing, and implementing machine learning models and algorithms
- PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field
- Strong background in machine learning research, demonstrated by publications or significant contributions to the field
- Experience in training large models and working with state-of-the-art approaches in machine learning
- Proficiency with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
- Knowledge of advanced AI architectures, including transformers, diffusion models, and reinforcement learning techniques
- Programming skills in Python or similar languages
- Familiarity with pre-training, fine-tuning and evaluating LLMs such as LLaMA, Mistral, Qwen, etc., is a significant plus
- Have a track record of innovating and improving machine learning algorithms
- Are passionate about understanding and developing model architectures, and enjoy performing careful empirical research
- Own and pursue a research agenda, choosing impactful problems and autonomously carrying out long-term projects
- Enjoy collaborating in a team environment, working together to make significant discoveries
- Are excited about staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in machine learning research and its applications
- View research and engineering as two sides of the same coin, engaging in both to achieve your goals
What the job involves
- You will be at the forefront of advancing our AI capabilities by developing state-of-the-art models and contributing to cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence
- Your work will involve exploring novel ideas, training large-scale models, and collaborating closely with other researchers and engineers to push the boundaries of what's possible in AI
- Conduct cutting-edge research to advance our AI models and capabilities
- Develop and implement novel machine learning techniques, experimenting with new architectures and algorithms
- Train and evaluate large-scale ML models, optimizing for quality, latency and cost
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, sharing insights and integrating research findings into our products
- Communicate results internally and publicly, contributing to the broader AI community
- Mentor junior researchers and engineers, fostering a culture of learning and collaboration
- Exploring the impact of new attention mechanisms within transformer architectures to improve model quality and latency
- Investigating methods for 3D animation synthesis by performing ablation study to thoroughly compare diffusion vs flow-matching based approaches
- Developing algorithms for on-device AI, optimizing transformer-based models for specific hardware constraints
- Researching and implementing techniques for creating new AI voices, enabling developers to generate and use them at runtime
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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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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