Research Engineer
Sesame · San Francisco · New York · Bellevue
CHECKED 3H AGO
Applied AIonsite$190k–$320k
At a glance
Highlights
- Design evals that keep speech and multimodal models honest in production.
- Prototype and deploy voice models for real-time companion experience.
- Take ideas from whiteboard to production in days, not quarters.
What they offer
- 401(k) with 3.5% max employer match
- 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental for you and dependents
- Unlimited PTO and sick time
- Medical FSA with employer match up to $1,650/year
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Competitive stock options
Ideal candidate
High-agency, research-minded engineer who loves shipping user-facing ML fast and cares about honest evals and lifelike voice experiences.
Requirements
- Expert-level PyTorch
- Comfortable writing production code across the stack
- Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning large-scale models
- Designed metrics and eval harnesses that predict user happiness
- Deep knowledge of ML lifecycle from dataset ops to monitoring
- History shipping complex user-facing online ML systems to production
- High agency with ability to set technical direction and partner cross-functionally
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