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 agents 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and build secure, maintainable, self-serve core infrastructure that engineering teams can rely on and operate independently
• Architect and evolve a modern ML training infrastructure — scalable, reproducible, and built for rapid experimentation
• Build and operate a modern model serving architecture with a focus on reliability, cost efficiency, and low latency
• Own and scale the low-latency voice interface and audio processing pipeline — a technically demanding, performance-sensitive system at the core of Sesame's product
• Build developer tooling, server infrastructure, and data infrastructure that is high leverage and low maintenance — the kind that makes other engineers faster without creating new dependencies on you
• Set technical direction within your domain, bring others along through clear communication and well-reasoned proposals, and raise the engineering bar across the team

Required Qualifications

• A strong systems thinker who is equally comfortable setting direction and getting hands-on with implementation
• Hands-on reliability engineering experience — you have well-formed convictions about observability, monitoring, deployment systems, and loosely coupled architectures, and you've put them into practice at scale
• Proven track record of shipping services at scale, with all the operational complexity that comes with it
• Kubernetes — significant production experience operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters

Preferred Qualifications We'd love to hear about experience in most of these areas — we don't expect any one person to have all of them

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

• 401 (k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation
• 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• Flexible spending account with employer matching up to $1,650/year (medical FSA)
• Guardian Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Opportunity to share in the company's success with competitive stock options

Benefits do not apply to contingent/contract workers.

Compensation Range: $175K - $280K