About

At Sesame, we believe that a small, focused team with a clear vision can build great things that reshape how humans interact with technology. Our interdisciplinary team brings together long-tenured experts from machine learning, hardware, software, and entertainment backgrounds, united by a shared passion for making computers lifelike. We operate out of offices in San Francisco, Bellevue, and New York, where we believe in tightly integrating hardware, software, and machine learning to create voice interfaces that are nuanced, intimate, and genuinely useful rather than annoying.

Our culture emphasizes deliberate and thoughtful product design that meets users where they want to be. We're backed by world-class investors including a16z, Sequoia, Spark, and Matrix, which gives us the resources to pursue ambitious research outcomes across speech generation, personality modeling, and multimodality. Operating large GPU clusters and cultivating in-house expertise allows us to move from whiteboard to production in days, not quarters. We're looking for creative individuals who are excited about crossing the uncanny valley of voice to build computers that truly come alive.

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