# Staff / Principal Software Engineer - USA

About Inworld 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. Hundreds of millions of users interact with Inworld powered apps every day and we serve over 10 trillion LLM tokens per month. Our models and infrastructure support consumer applications across companions, healthcare, fitness, education, media, and more. Our work spans model research, realtime inference, large-scale serving infrastructure, and the APIs developers use to bring these capabilities into production. We’ve raised more than $125M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Section 32, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft’s M12 venture fund, Founders Fund, Meta, Stanford, and others. Our technology has powered experiences from companies including NVIDIA, Microsoft Xbox, Niantic, Logitech Streamlabs, Wishroll, Little Umbrella, and Bible Chat. Inworld has also been recognized by CB Insights as one of the 100 most promising AI companies globally and named one of LinkedIn’s Top 10 Startups in the USA. About the role: Inworld recently launched a

- **Id**: 127837
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/inworld-ai-staff-principal-software-engineer-usa>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2025-04-28T23:52:07Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2025-04-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-16T20:24:59Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-10-16T20:24:59Z
- **Days open**: 535
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5992
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Conversational AI, Game Development, AI Agents

## Company

- **Id**: 48094
- **Name**: Inworld AI
- **Domain**: inworld.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/inworld-ai>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 16
- **Ghost share**: 0.25
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 76
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 163000
- **Max usd**: 331000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1093

## Technologies

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- **LLM** — Optional: no
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- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Realtime API** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Text-to-Speech** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 535

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2025-04-28T23:52:07Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T22:20:06Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-16T20:24:59Z

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