About the role
What we're looking for:
We need a Staff or Principal-level Platform Engineer with 8+ years of experience in software engineering and deep expertise in Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code. You should be comfortable taking end-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure at scale and have a track record of building reliable, high-performance systems that support consumer-facing AI products. Bonus points if you have experience with AI/ML infrastructure or realtime low-latency workloads.
What you'll do:
- Design, deploy, and maintain reliable, high-performance, and secure cloud infrastructure for Inworld's TTS and LLM Router products
- Take ownership of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure deployments using Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and related tooling
- Work closely with engineers across the organization to deploy and evolve services across major cloud providers (GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud)
- Drive engineering velocity by identifying and building AI-powered tooling and workflows that improve how teams develop and deploy software
- Facilitate a "you build it, you run it" culture by providing the necessary tools and processes for monitoring reliability, availability, and performance of services
- Conduct root cause analysis to identify critical issues and develop automated solutions to prevent recurrence
- Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters, including creating Kustomize manifests and Helm charts for application deployments
About Inworld
Inworld is a research lab of top researchers and engineers, building the world’s top-ranked realtime voice models.
Today our models are the #1 ranked realtime voice models in the world. They are used to power the largest consumer-facing AI applications available, across categories like health, fitness, learning, therapy, companions, customer experience and media; representing 100s of millions of end users. Our work spans areas like research and development of state-of-the-art models, optimizing realtime inference, and creating best-in-class APIs and products that allow developers to engage their users.
We’ve raised more than $125M from Lightspeed, Section 32, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft’s M12 venture fund, Founders Fund, Meta and Stanford, among others. Our technology has powered experiences from companies such as NVIDIA, Microsoft Xbox, Niantic, Logitech Streamlabs, Wishroll, Little Umbrella and Bible Chat. We’ve also been recognized by CB Insights as one of the 100 most promising AI companies globally and have been named one of LinkedIn’s Top 10 Startups in the USA.
Required skills
Other roles at Inworld
Job details
Salary
$280,000 - $350,000
Location
Mountain View, United States
Experience
8+ years
Funding
Total raised
$120M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.