Senior / Lead Research Scientist (AI)

TL;DR

Senior / Lead Research Scientist (AI): Developing best-in-class realtime multimodal models and the only realtime orchestration platform optimized for thousands of queries per second with an accent on training, new architectures, and scaling. Focus on evaluation, LLM-as-judge, and failure analysis.

Location: Collaboration daily with US-based leadership and engineering teams.

Company

Inworld is a product-oriented research lab of top AI researchers and engineers, developing best-in-class realtime multimodal models and the only realtime orchestration platform optimized for thousands of queries per second.

What you will do

• Frame unclear problems and make them clear.
• Design experiments to find out solutions.
• Treat evaluation as a first-class research product.
• Share work that moves the field forward.
• Iterate quickly with a flat structure.

Requirements

• Professional fluency in English (written and spoken) is required.
• Experience with foundation models, evaluation, and frontier topics.
• Published research at ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP, ACL, or AAAI.
• PhD in ML/NLP — or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with full-stack research ownership.

Culture & Benefits

• Value researchers who say "I don't know yet".
• Impact comes before publications.
• Work should be visible.
• Flat structure and fast iterations.
• Minimal process theater.