Forward Deployed Engineer, Inworld AI
AI Gameplay Engineer
$150-240k
Plus bonus and equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
AI-powered characters for virtual environments
Job no longer available
AI-powered characters for virtual environments
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$150-240k
Plus bonus and equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To transform static software into living AI systems that autonomously evolve to better serve their users.
Role
Who you are
- BA/BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or Game Development
- 3+ years of Unity and/or Unreal Engine development experience
- 3+ years of technical experience as a game developer
- Exceptional product intuition, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
- Experience working with strategic partners and presenting to executives
- Passionate about learning and applying cutting edge AI research
- Understanding and experience with LLM prompt engineering
- Hacker mindset and ability to think outside the box
- Experience in programming AI, low-level networking, and audio is a big plus
What the job involves
- Help shape the future of AI by developing and executing on the vision for AI-driven video games and interactive experiences
- In this unique role as a Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Gameplay Engineer), you will work closely with high profile partners to define, deploy and launch groundbreaking immersive experiences
- This is an opportunity to build 0 to 1 product experiences at the intersection of many of today’s most transformative technologies
- Work alongside top AI/ML engineering and product leaders to define requirements, collaborate with partners, solve technical challenges and launch our products
- Work closely with our Product + Partnerships teams to ensure that critical partner projects are successful
- Solve deeply technical challenges related to AI character interactions and behaviors
- Work closely with C-level executives and industry leaders to understand business and product needs and translate them into clear product requirements for our platform and characters
- Translate partners’ feedback and requests into product requirements and roadmap, driving prioritization and pre- and post-launch execution
- Develop vision and prototype/pilot versions of next generation immersive experiences
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.
Since launching, Inworld has quickly grown from an AI-character startup into one of the key players powering consumer AI. Its early work with companies like Xbox, Disney, and NBCUniversal helped provide the value of real-time AI experiences, and now a wide range of media companies, game studios, and fast-growing startups are building on its platform.
Now, with the recent release of Inworld Runtime, the company is taking an even bigger step. By opening up the internal system they originally built to handle huge, real-time consumer workloads, Inworld is positioning Runtime as the go-to backend for any team looking to scale from an idea to millions of users. Its adaptive graphs, automated MLOps, and one-click experiments remove most of the painful engineering work that usually slows teams now. And for Inworld, this turns Runtime into more than just a product, it becomes the core of the company's future.
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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 HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Ilya Gelfenbeyn
(Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)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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