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Sesame

AI-powered smart glasses with lifelike voice companions

San Francisco, CAOnsite51-200aiSeries B
About

Sesame builds lifelike AI voice companions like Maya and Miles that enable natural, emotionally resonant conversations with low latency. They develop lightweight eyewear hardware for all-day wear, providing high-quality audio and visual observation capabilities. This creates always-on personal AI agents to assist users in daily life.

Tech stack
KubernetesGCPPyTorchPythonReactAWSC++LinuxWebSocketsSwiftTensorFlowUsability TestinggRPCPostgreSQLNoSQLTypeScriptDockerJavaScriptGoogle CloudNext.js
Perks & benefits
401k matchHealth insuranceDental insuranceVision insuranceUnlimited PTO
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Open roles · 25
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ML Engineer

Research Engineer building and deploying production voice and multimodal ML models. Requires expert PyTorch, large-scale model training experience, and shipping user-facing ML systems.

190k – 320kSan Francisco, CA +2ML EngineeringOn-site5+ YOEPythonPyTorch
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Global Supply Chain Manager, FATP

Lead sourcing strategy and supplier management for final assembly and packaging of hardware products. Partner with engineering and operations to manage contract manufacturers through NPI and production.

193k – 275kSan Francisco, CA +1Business OperationsHybrid5+ YOENPISourcing
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Customer Experience Manager

Leads customer support for AI voice agent hardware/software products, building scalable processes, team, and self-service tools from scratch. Partners cross-functionally to drive product improvements using customer insights; requires 5+ years support experience with 2+ in management.

125k – 240kSan Francisco, CACustomer SuccessOn-site5+ YOEiOSZendesk
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SWE - Backend Infrastructure Engineer

Builds and scales core infrastructure including ML training/serving, Kubernetes clusters, and low-latency voice/audio pipelines. Requires 3+ years in infrastructure/ML systems, hands-on reliability engineering, and Kubernetes expertise.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CA +2DevOps / SREOn-site3+ YOEAPIsSeldon
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ML Scientist

Develops novel ML models across NLP, Speech, and Computer Vision modalities using deep learning. Conducts research, experiments with architectures, curates data, and builds training/inference infrastructure. Requires publications in relevant fields and familiarity with AI state-of-the-art.

190k – 320kSan Francisco, CAAI ResearchOn-siteNLPPyTorch
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Backend Software Engineer

Builds scalable backend systems for voice AI agents, owning data models, APIs, distributed services, ML-integrated architectures, and reliability. Requires strong distributed systems, database, and networking expertise with production-scale experience.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CA +2Backend EngineeringOn-siteGCPREST
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Fabrication Technician

Hands-on Fabrication Technician commissions and maintains prototyping equipment like 3D printers, CNC mills, and laser cutters. Fabricates precision parts, assembles electro-mechanical prototypes, and manages lab operations for hardware team. Requires 5+ years experience in mechanical fabrication.

120k – 180kSan Francisco, CAOtherOn-site5+ YOEGD&TMetrology
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Technical Program Manager, Data

Leads data collection and annotation initiatives for audio/ML projects, collaborating with research/product teams to gather requirements, manage resources/vendors, and ensure high-quality delivery. Requires 5+ years with ML teams and data labeling experience.

200k – 260kSan Francisco, CATechnical Program ManagementOn-site5+ YOELLMsData Labeling
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Sensing Systems Engineer

Owns end-to-end sensor system performance for consumer wearables, from hardware selection and integration through firmware, signal processing, and ML integration. Requires 5+ years in systems engineering with expertise in DSP, embedded systems, and shipping high-volume products.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CA +1Embedded EngineeringOn-site5+ YOEC/C++ANSYS
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Software Engineer, Internal Tools

Build and maintain React-based web tools and Python infrastructure for ML data pipelines and internal developer productivity at a voice AI startup. Collaborate with ML engineers and researchers, focusing on usability, reliability, and cloud deployment. Requires 4+ years full-stack experience.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CAFullstack EngineeringOn-site4+ YOEAWSReact
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Backend Infrastructure Engineer

Builds developer infrastructure tools including CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and self-serve frameworks to enable fast, reliable engineering workflows. Requires 5+ years experience with Python/TypeScript, automation focus, and dev tooling expertise.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CA +2DevOps / SREOn-site5+ YOEGCPCI/CD
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Eyewear Designer

Designs luxury fashion eyewear blending aesthetics, advanced materials, and user experience for personal computing devices. Collaborates with engineers on concepts, prototypes, fit testing, and production-ready frames requiring 5+ years experience and strong 2D/3D design skills.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CABrand DesignOn-site5+ YOECMFAlias
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iOS Engineer, Device Integration

Develops iOS companion app for wearable devices, integrating with hardware/firmware for seamless setup, account management, OTA updates, and personalized experiences. Requires strong iOS frameworks knowledge, Core Bluetooth expertise, and experience with IoT/wearables.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CA +1iOS EngineeringOn-siteBLEIoT
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Audio Systems Engineer

Designs, tunes, and ships high-performance audio systems for smart wearable devices, including real-time capture, rendering, and spatial audio. Requires 4+ years in audio hardware, DSP expertise, and bachelor's in EE/CS/Acoustics.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CA +1Embedded EngineeringOn-site4+ YOEMLDSP
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Hardware Technical Program Manager

Oversees end-to-end hardware development for wearable consumer electronics, managing cross-functional teams, vendors, schedules, budgets, and risks from concept to mass production. Requires 7+ years in hardware program management and bachelor's in engineering.

175k – 250kBellevue, WA +1Technical Program ManagementOn-site7+ YOEBLEIoT
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Test Engineer, Manufacturing

Develops and optimizes manufacturing test strategies, fixtures, and software for wearable devices, covering audio, camera, RF, sensors, and battery testing. Collaborates with contract manufacturers and design teams to ensure quality from NPI to mass production.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CA +1OtherOn-siteC#GR&R
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Embedded ML Engineer – Gesture Recognition

Develops and deploys gesture recognition ML algorithms on ultra-low-power embedded hardware for wearable devices. Owns full ML lifecycle including optimization for resource constraints; requires 10+ YOE in ML/software and proficiency in Python/C++ with PyTorch/TensorFlow.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CA +1Embedded EngineeringOn-site10+ YOEC++IMUs
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Embedded Engineer

Develops firmware for embedded systems in wearable consumer electronics, from low-power MCUs to mobile SoCs. Architects, implements, debugs software, contributes to hardware bring-up, and integrates with higher-level systems. Requires 10+ years experience, C/C++ mastery, and BS/MS in EE/CE/CS.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CA +1Embedded EngineeringOn-site10+ YOEC++USB
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Mechanical Engineer, Product Design

Designs and prototypes mechanical systems for compact wearable hardware integrating sensors, batteries, and cameras. Requires 7+ years experience in product design, expertise in CAD/simulation tools, and shipping wearables in small form factors.

175k – 280kBellevue, WA +1Hardware EngineeringOn-site7+ YOECADstamping
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iOS Engineer

Builds and leads development of a standalone iOS companion app for voice agents, focusing on design-forward, low-latency UI and complex features. Ships production apps with expertise in modern iOS patterns, real-time comms, and performance optimization.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CA +2iOS EngineeringOn-siteBLESwift
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Product Manager, Hardware

Leads hardware product portfolio for AI companion devices, owning full lifecycle from concept to launch and managing a small PM team. Requires 10+ years PM experience with proven consumer hardware launches and deep hardware processes knowledge.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CAProduct ManagementOn-site10+ YOEPrototypingRoadmapping
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ML Model Serving Engineer

Optimizes and extends ML model serving infrastructure for LLMs, speech, and vision models, focusing on high-throughput, low-latency inference using frameworks like VLLM and SGLang. Requires deep PyTorch expertise, systems programming, and performance engineering for reliable production deployment.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CA +2ML EngineeringOn-siteRayGCP
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Embedded OS Architect

Designs and develops custom embedded OS for AI-driven real-time consumer devices, including kernel, drivers, and memory management. Requires 10+ years OS experience, C/C++/assembly expertise, and hardware-software integration skills.

190k – 320kSan Francisco, CA +1Embedded EngineeringOn-site10+ YOECC++
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Product Designer

Leads end-to-end product design for web and mobile apps, creating wireframes, prototypes, and UI specs while collaborating with PMs and engineers. Requires 7+ years experience, strong visual/interaction design skills, user research, and a robust portfolio.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CA +2Product DesignOn-site7+ YOEFigmaSketch
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Electrical Engineer

Designs and owns electrical architecture for compact wearable hardware systems with MCU/SOC/FPGA, battery, sensing, RF, and audio. Requires 10+ years EE experience shipping complex battery-powered consumer electronics, strong PCB skills, and cross-functional collaboration.

175k – 280kSan Francisco, CA +1Hardware EngineeringOn-site10+ YOERFMCU