---
title: 'Lead Technical Recruiter - USA at Inworld'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-technical-recruiter-usa-inworld-mountain-view-ppf2z8f50ns8'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-06'
---

# Lead Technical Recruiter - USA at Inworld

- **Company:** Inworld
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inworld-ai/fec9d44b-3536-4135-a92b-f7aaaad6eafb

## Job description

## 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.

We are looking for a Recruiting Lead to fuel our growth with extraordinary talent. This is a senior, high-ownership role: you'll act as a true talent partner to our founders and leadership across engineering, research, and business hiring as we scale. You'll own searches end to end, raise the bar on how we hire, and help shape the recruiting function itself.

## What you'll be doing

- Own our most critical and senior searches end to end, operating as an executive search partner to our founders, from talent strategy and market mapping through offer and close
- Act as a strategic advisor to hiring managers and leadership: shape role definitions, calibrate expectations, and design search strategies and execute them
- Build deep pipelines of exceptional AI, engineering, research, and business talent through creative sourcing and long-term relationship building with passive candidates
- Use data to drive decisions, track funnel health, diagnose bottlenecks, and report on hiring progress with rigor
- Apply AI to recruiting: use assistants like Claude and AI-native sourcing and automation tools to automate workflows and build tooling that makes the whole team faster, while keeping candidate touchpoint personal and high-touch
- Elevate our recruiting practice: improve processes, sharpen interviewer quality, ensure an exceptional candidate experience, and mentor others on the team
- Represent Inworld in the market as a compelling, credible ambassador for our mission and culture

## What you'll bring

- 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including several years supporting senior and hard-to-fill technical roles
- Deep understanding of technical roles, experience hiring in AI/ML, infrastructure, or research environments strongly preferred
- Versatility to run GTM, marketing, or business searches alongside your core technical focus
- A track record of closing exceptional senior talent in highly competitive markets
- Fluency with recruiting data, you use metrics to drive strategy, influence stakeholders, and hold searches accountable
- A builder's mindset, you love creating tools, automation, and processes, you prototype fast and improve as you go
- Hands-on fluency with AI assistants, you already use them daily, and you're always finding new ways to work smarter while maintaining a human-centered approach
- Proficiency with a modern AI-native recruiting stack
- Experience partnering directly with executives and hiring managers as a trusted advisor
- Experience in retained executive search, or as a strategic search partner to founders and executives, is a strong plus

You're a fit for our team if

- You operate with high ownership, you don't wait for direction, you set it
- You thrive in a fast-moving startup environment and stay effective amid ambiguity and shifting priorities
- You love optimizing workflows and constantly look for ways to improve how the team works
- You hold a high bar, for candidates, for process quality, and for yourself
- You're organized, prioritize ruthlessly, and communicate clearly with stakeholders at every level

The base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 - $260,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location, level, and additional factors, including competencies, experience, and business needs. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Inworld Jobs Privacy https://inworld.ai/jobs-privacy

## About Inworld

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Inworld AI is the realtime AI company that builds voice AI systems—spanning speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and LLM routing—designed to feel as human as it sounds for consumer-facing applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series-stage undisclosed; raised $125M+)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, USA (with additional presence in Vancouver, Canada)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Kylan Gibbs (Co-founder & CEO), Ilya Gelfenbeyn (Co-founder & CSO), Michael Ermolenko (Co-founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence – realtime voice AI infrastructure and research
- **Target customers**: B2B (developers building AI-native applications), B2C (via customer applications such as companions, language learning, interactive media), and Enterprise (Fortune 500 brands like NVIDIA, NBCU, Logitech Streamlabs)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To transform static software into living AI systems that autonomously evolve to better serve their users."

## Products & Services
- **Realtime TTS**: Top-ranked realtime text-to-speech on the Artificial Analysis Realtime TTS Arena. Models include `inworld-tts-2` (research preview, 100+ languages with cross-lingual voice identity), `inworld-tts-1.5-max` (GA, 15 languages), and `inworld-tts-1.5-mini` (GA, lower latency). Supports voice cloning from 5–15 seconds of audio. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **Realtime STT**: Speech-to-text with multi-provider transcription (Inworld, Groq Whisper, AssemblyAI, Soniox) and voice profiling (age, pitch, emotion, vocal style, accent). [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **Realtime API**: Full-duplex voice conversations over a single WebSocket session (STT + LLM + TTS), OpenAI Realtime protocol compatible. Ships in days, fails in fewer places. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **Realtime Router**: Routes to 220+ LLMs through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint across two tracks: 3P (external providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) and 1P (Realtime Inference). [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **Realtime Inference**: Inworld-hosted, optimized open-source models (Gemma 4, DeepSeek V3.2/V4, MiniMax-M2.5) built for consumer-scale cost and realtime latency. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **Compute**: Managed GPU for committed high-volume customers requiring predictable latency. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – Over $125M raised
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Section 32, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, CRV, Stanford University, Intel Capital, Microsoft M12, Meta, Samsung NEXT, LG Technology Ventures, Bitkraft. Customers include Status by Wishroll, Bible Chat, Talkpal, Particle, Luvu, NVIDIA, NBCU, and Logitech Streamlabs. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)
- **Growth Signals**: Status by Wishroll reached 1M users in 19 days on Inworld with a 95% AI cost reduction. Bible Chat scaled from 2M to 20M characters/week with an 85% TTS cost reduction. Talkpal serves 5 million language learners using Realtime TTS. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Product-oriented research lab**: The founding team led product for LLMs at DeepMind and built Dialogflow (Google). Maintains a research organization with backgrounds from Google, DeepMind, Meta, Apple, Cruise, Microsoft. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)
- **Top-ranked realtime TTS**: Ranked #1 on the Artificial Analysis Realtime TTS Arena. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **OpenAI Realtime API compatibility**: Developers can migrate by swapping the endpoint and auth credentials, lowering switching costs. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)
- **Full stack of voice infrastructure**: From STT to LLM routing to TTS and managed compute, all in one platform—eliminating the need to stitch together multiple vendors. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Realtime AI for consumer-facing applications**: Doubling down on companions, character chat, roleplay, customer support voice agents, sales/SDR agents, phone agents, and language learning. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
- **Cost reduction at scale**: Consistently driving down AI costs for customers (e.g., 95% reduction for Wishroll, 85% for Bible Chat) to enable free-tier consumer economics. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)
- **Enterprise expansion**: Offering on-premise deployment, HIPAA/BAA compliance, EU and India data residency, and dedicated account management. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "A passionate engineering-minded team" where "technical depth is a requirement for deep empathy with our customers." The company states that no matter the role, they only hire technical people. [inworld.ai/careers](https://inworld.ai/careers)
- **Autonomy and impact**: Employees are empowered with autonomy to work across research and engineering, drive product strategy, and "leave their mark on an entire industry." [inworld.ai/careers](https://inworld.ai/careers)
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Not explicitly stated on careers page, but headquarters are in Mountain View, CA, with a presence in Vancouver, Canada. Active job postings are location-specific (e.g., US-based roles). [inworld.ai/careers](https://inworld.ai/careers)
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Focus on research and open-source contributions (github.com/inworld-ai). The company describes itself as a "product-oriented research lab" with a strong emphasis on shipping realtime AI products. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)

## Sources
1. [inworld.ai](https://inworld.ai/)
2. [inworld.ai/careers](https://inworld.ai/careers)
3. [inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai](https://inworld.ai/resources/what-is-inworld-ai)
4. [LinkedIn – Inworld AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/inworld-ai)
5. [Datanyze – Inworld AI Company Profile](https://www.datanyze.com/companies/inworld-ai/559637359)

## Other roles at Inworld

- [Product Marketing Manager - USA](https://feeny.ai/job/product-marketing-manager-usa-inworld-mountain-view-hgkbeava4ea5) — Mountain View, CA
- [Performance Marketing Lead - USA](https://feeny.ai/job/performance-marketing-lead-usa-inworld-mountain-view-srjdwezxy15t) — Mountain View, CA
- [Product Lead - USA](https://feeny.ai/job/product-lead-usa-inworld-mountain-view-1w2xc2c0q2sa) — Mountain View, CA
- [Founding AI Solutions Engineer - USA](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-ai-solutions-engineer-usa-inworld-mountain-view-tq1ppzf0qwmq) — Mountain View, CA
- [Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Serving - Switzerland](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-principal-machine-learning-engineer-serving-switzerland-inworld-f7emse251crp) — Switzerland
- [Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Serving - UK](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-principal-machine-learning-engineer-serving-uk-inworld-united-kingdom-p52te33gaj10) — United Kingdom
- [Senior / Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Serving - Serbia](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-lead-machine-learning-engineer-serving-serbia-inworld-serbia-1vhdr56n8jjb) — Serbia
- [Senior / Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Serving - Germany](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-lead-machine-learning-engineer-serving-germany-inworld-germany-79qa3m65a8m5) — Germany
- [Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Serving - USA](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-principal-machine-learning-engineer-serving-usa-inworld-mountain-view-sfgvvj07jfhy) — Mountain View, CA
- [Staff / Principal Research Scientist - UK](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-principal-research-scientist-uk-inworld-united-kingdom-vfcekdtr8k1m) — United Kingdom