About the Position

Staff / Principal Software Engineer - Canada

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Base Salary Range: C$180,000 - C$260,000 per year

About Inworld

Inworld is a research lab of top researchers and engineers, building the world’s top-ranked realtime voice models. Our models are the #1 ranked realtime voice models in the world and are used to power the largest consumer-facing AI applications across various categories. We've raised more than $125M from prestigious investors and have been recognized as one of the 100 most promising AI companies globally.

About the Role

Inworld recently launched several exciting new products (Inworld TTS, Inworld STT, Speech-to-Speech / Realtime API, and Inworld Router) for consumer AI applications. We are looking for an ambitious and capable Staff/Principal Backend Engineer to join us and help take the Inworld AI platform even farther.

Responsibilities

Inworld Router: Develop an intelligent routing layer that provides developers with a single API to access 200+ LLMs. You'll own core systems for multi-provider failover, cost/latency-based routing, live A/B experimentation, and real-time observability at massive scale.
Realtime API
API-based model services: Work on our custom TTS/STT models and API, including free instant voice cloning. Learn more and hear examples at inworld.ai/tts.
New exciting products: Contribute to ambitious and large-scale products in the lineup for the launch later this year.
Services for control and optimization: Develop deeper capabilities for control and optimization.
Infrastructural projects: Work on platformization of new product offerings, development and integration of best development tools, system-wide billing, and more.

Requirements

Must Haves

Excellent programming skills and experience in a statically typed backend programming language, preferably Go, Python, C++, or Rust.
Experience developing and deploying cloud-based services to at least hundreds of qps (preferably more).
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL).
Hands-on experience with caching (Redis or Memcached), pubsub/queues, data pipelines (Flink, Beam), and Cloud storage.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to collaborate and coordinate with other roles and engineers with ease.

Bonus Qualifications

Experience building API gateways, routing/proxy layers, or multi-provider orchestration systems.
Experience with analytics or timeseries databases (ClickHouse, Timescale, InfluxDB).
Experience with OpenTelemetry.
Experience with C++.

We Offer

Competitive base salary range: C$180,000 - C$260,000 per year.
Total compensation includes equity and benefits.
Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects.
Collaborative and innovative work environment.

About the Company

Inworld is a leading AI research lab, recognized globally for its innovative realtime voice models. Our technology powers experiences for companies such as NVIDIA, Microsoft Xbox, Niantic, Logitech Streamlabs, Wishroll, Little Umbrella, and Bible Chat. Join us to be part of a team that is shaping the future of AI.

Apply now to join our team and help us take the Inworld AI platform to new heights!

Staff / Principal Software Engineer - Canada

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