Data Engineer, Machine Learning
Sesame · San Francisco · New York · Bellevue
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Applied AIonsitesenior$170k–$280k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build pipelines that turn voice and conversation data into ML training datasets.
- Design systems for versioning and tracing datasets behind every model run.
- Shape data infrastructure powering lifelike voice agents for daily life.
What they offer
- 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
Ideal candidate
A collaborative data engineer with 5+ years supporting ML teams who cares deeply about data quality and reproducibility and thrives embedded with researchers turning messy multimodal data into trusted datasets.
Requirements
- 5+ years in data engineering, with meaningful experience supporting ML or AI teams specifically
- Strong SQL and Python skills — you'll use both daily
- Experience building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines at scale using modern data platforms and tooling
- Experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect
- Hands-on experience with ML data workflows: training data pipelines, dataset versioning, data labeling pipelines, or model evaluation data
- Solid understanding of how ML teams work and what makes a good training dataset
- Comfort working with unstructured and semi-structured data — audio, text, JSON logs
- Strong communication skills and ability to bridge data systems and model requirements
Lab profile
About Sesame
Designing lifelike computers and voice agents that see, hear, and collaborate naturally.
What they build
- Lifelike voice agents
- Voice-first computer hardware
Known for
- Lifelike voice interaction
- Hardware and software co-design
- Leaders from Oculus, Meta, Google, Apple