Inworld

Founding Solutions Engineer - USA

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3 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$170k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with GTM leads on deals by leading technical discovery, running POCs, and owning solution design through close.
  • Build prototypes and reference integrations for TTS, STT, LLM Router, LLM inference, and Realtime API solutions in customer environments.
  • Serve as the primary technical advisor during onboarding and help customers reach production-quality integrations.
  • Translate customer requirements into actionable feedback for Product and Engineering.
  • Answer technical questions about latency, deployment, streaming architecture, and model selection.
  • Maintain integration examples, demo environments, and technical collateral for the GTM team.
  • Identify expansion opportunities based on customer needs and product usage.
  • Help define Inworld’s solutions engineering function and technical sales process as an early hire.
  • Work with GTM leadership to develop modern sales and GTM processes.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Technical Account Manager.
  • Strong hands-on coding ability with production-quality integration code; Python is strongly preferred and JavaScript or TypeScript is a plus.
  • Deep familiarity with AI/ML APIs, LLMs, speech models, and streaming APIs.
  • Demonstrated ability to run technical POCs end-to-end and drive them to a decision.
  • Strong communication skills for bridging technical and business conversations.
  • High empathy and integrity in customer interactions, with comfort working in ambiguous and changing environments.
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical domain.
  • Bonus experience with voice AI, TTS, STT, real-time audio and speech systems, gaming, CCaaS, media and entertainment, on-premise or edge deployment, containerization, model serving, quantization, WebSocket, WebRTC, real-time streaming infrastructure, high-growth startups, founding or operating roles, Clay, n8n, or Zapier.
  • Candidates must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate.

Benefits

  • Full-time position with equity and benefits.
  • Hybrid work arrangement requiring work on-site in the South Bay office a few days per week.
  • Candidates must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Inworld

About Inworld

51-200 employees

Inworld AI is a realtime AI research lab and model provider, providing Voice AI built for realtime conversation that feels as human as it sounds. Offering the #1 ranked text-to-speech and speech-to-speech, as well as user-aware LLM routing and speech recognition that also understands user context and emotions.