Sesame
Bringing the computer to life
HQUS
Team Size109
Open Jobs106
Total Funding-
Latest FundraiseUnknown
Bringing the computer to life
Company: Sesame
Focus: Lifelike conversational voice assistants and lightweight wearable hardware
Notable release: Published base model CSM-1B (1B parameters) under Apache 2.0
Founders / leadership: Brendan Iribe and Ankit Kumar
Employee count (approx.): 109
Conversational AI / voice technology and wearable devices
Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
$250M
Reported Series B announced Oct 21, 2025; reporting notes participation by investors including Sequoia and Spark.
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About Sesame Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human. With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice companions part of our daily lives. Our team brings together founders from Oculus and Ubiquity6, alongside proven leaders from Meta, Google, and Apple, with deep expertise spanning hardware and software. Join us in shaping a future where computers truly come alive.
About The Role As a Backend Infrastructure Engineer at Sesame, you will work across the stack, with an emphasis on backend, infrastructure, and systems. You should feel comfortable working on any typical software project, with the ability to quickly learn new tools and services with a strong intuition on software development and software deployment best practices.
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Significant IaC experience (Terraform preferred).
CloudFormation, Pulumi, Kube-based, etc.
Architected a multi-stack, self-serve Terraform system, or maintained one.
Understand the challenges of building infrastructure at scale.
Significant Kubernetes experience.
Some ML experience.
Torch experience, especially model optimization for serving.
General ML training or serving experience.
Built ML serving and/or training infrastructure.
Experience in Torch Serve, Seldon, KServe, Ray Serve, etc.
Experience building large-scale distributed training and serving systems.
Data engineering experience.
Technical leadership.
Database design.
Real-time communication experience.
Sesame is committed to a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome all qualified applicants, embracing diversity in race, gender, identity, orientation, ability, and more. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities—contact careers@sesame.com for assistance.
Full-time Employee Benefits:
Benefits do not apply to contingent/contract workers
Compensation Range: $175K - $280K