Jobs at Sesame

Sesame is seeking an Electrical Engineering Technician for a contract role. The technician will be responsible for assembling, debugging, and maintaining complex wearable machine perception systems, including custom electronics and sensors. This involves hands-on work with fine-pitched soldering, testing equipment, and managing fabrication vendors.

Sesame is hiring a Fabrication Shop Manager to build, staff, and run their new fabrication shop and prototype line in Bellevue, WA. This role involves developing and proving manufacturing processes, building repeatable prototype lines, and collaborating with engineering teams to turn concepts into production-representative builds. The ideal candidate has experience running a machine shop or pilot line and is proficient in CNC and joining processes for plastics and metals.

Sesame is hiring an Automation Engineer for their mobile quality team. This role will build and own iOS and Android test automation for CI, focusing on improving coverage, reliable failure triage, and higher-quality releases. The engineer will automate key user flows and ensure parity between iOS and Android testing.

Research Scientist at Sesame focused on developing novel machine learning models for voice agents. Responsibilities include contributing to ML model development across multiple modalities, working across the ML stack, and researching and implementing new approaches.

Product Designer at Sesame, a company building lifelike computers with voice agents. This role involves leading the design process from concept to implementation, collaborating with cross-functional teams, creating wireframes and prototypes, conducting user research, and advocating for user-centered design principles.

Manufacturing Mechanical Engineer at Sesame responsible for the mechanical process and fixturing for hardware builds. This hands-on role involves significant time in MCAD, defining and validating fixtures, troubleshooting manufacturing tooling, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and international partners.

Sesame is seeking a Product Engineering Lead to guide their team in building human-like interfaces for intelligence, focusing on voice agents. The role involves driving product outcomes, staying hands-on with prototyping and bug fixing, ensuring product quality, and growing engineers through feedback and opportunities.

Software Engineer, Character Platform & Tools at Sesame. This role requires full-stack engineering experience to build internal platforms and tools that accelerate the agent research pipeline. Responsibilities include collaborating with research and creative teams, designing and building internal tools for experimentation, and iterating on tools based on user feedback.

Executive Assistant role at Sesame supporting the CEO and Head of Operations. Responsibilities include managing complex calendars, coordinating high-level communications, and ensuring seamless operations in a fast-moving environment.

Eyewear Designer at Sesame focused on creating luxury fashion eyewear. Responsibilities include generating innovative design and CMF concepts, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and translating trends into production-ready designs.

Staff Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure at Sesame. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining core infrastructure, leading the architecture of ML training and model serving, and owning the low-latency voice interface and audio processing pipeline. The engineer will also build developer tooling and raise the engineering bar across the team.

Lead iOS Engineer at Sesame, a company building lifelike computers with voice agents. This role involves building the company's standalone companion app, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and providing leadership on iOS best practices and app design. The engineer will also contribute to defining the mobile and web strategy.

Research Engineer at Sesame focused on NLP, Speech, and/or Computer Vision with a deep learning focus. Responsibilities include owning evaluation pipelines, creating data tooling, shipping and deploying voice models, scaling LLM workloads, and implementing monitoring and live evaluations.

NPI Engineer at Sesame responsible for leading the deployment of innovative solutions by partnering with Asian manufacturing integrators. This role involves developing automation, tooling, and validation processes to manage complex manufacturing challenges from groundbreaking through mass production, ensuring quality, cost, and delivery targets are met.

Mechanical Engineer, Product Design at Sesame. This role involves architecting, designing, simulating, prototyping, and shipping mechanical systems and components for wearable form factors. Responsibilities include driving mechanical architecture, thermal design, component selection, and collaborating across domains.

Sesame is seeking a Senior Product Manager, Hardware to drive their hardware product portfolio from concept to launch. This role involves understanding user needs, setting product vision and strategy, managing development cycles, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver AI companions.

Executive Assistant to support two Senior Founders at Sesame, a tech startup focused on lifelike computers and voice agents. This role requires a strategic, proactive operator who can anticipate needs, solve problems, and serve as a trusted thought partner to executive leadership in a fast-paced environment.

ML Model Serving Engineer at Sesame focused on optimizing the serving layer for LLM, speech, and vision models. Responsibilities include partnering with ML infrastructure teams to build a fast, cost-effective, and reliable serving layer, and modifying LLM serving frameworks like VLLM and SGLang.

Sesame is hiring a Hardware Test Automation Engineer to build the automation backbone for their wearable AI hardware device. This role involves designing and owning an automated test rig, establishing automated test runs, and building a live performance and stress dashboard to ensure product quality.

Technical Program Manager for Product Design at Sesame, focusing on the mechanical aspects of a wearable computer. This role involves managing program plans for enclosures, materials, mechanisms, and packaging, guiding hundreds of mechanical parts through design release, tooling, validation, and factory builds.

Experienced iOS Engineer needed to build the Sesame companion app for next-generation wearable devices. Responsibilities include architecture, design, and implementation of the iOS app, working closely with firmware, backend, design, and product teams to create a seamless user experience.