Staff / Principal Research Scientist, Models - Switzerland

The role

This person will conduct research on foundation models, evaluation, and frontier topics. They will frame questions, run experiments, write papers, and ship results.

What you will do

• Frame the question
• Run the experiments
• Write the paper
• Ship the result

Required qualifications

• Professional fluency in English (written and spoken)
• Legal right to work in Switzerland

Nice to have

• Foundation models: training, new architectures, RL, reward modeling, scaling
• Evaluation: benchmarks, eval loops, quality measurement, LLM-as-judge, failure analysis
• Frontier topics: multimodal models, agents, tool use, test-time compute, world models
• Published research at ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP, ACL, or AAAI
• PhD in ML/NLP — or equivalent practical experience you can point to
• Public work: non-trivial AI side projects, interdisciplinary experiments, open-source contributions
• Full-stack research ownership

About the company

Inworld is a research lab and inference provider focused on realtime AI for consumer-facing applications. They build first-party speech models, serve LLMs, and run inference for high-volume, realtime workloads.