Sesame is a San Francisco company founded in 2023 that pairs speech and multimodal AI models with its own hardware. Its stack spans embedded firmware (Zephyr, FreeRTOS, QNX, AOSP, Qualcomm) alongside ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX) and real-time transport (WebRTC). Hiring skews heavily toward senior engineers, and open projects focus on low-latency voice pipelines, LLM serving cost and DFM/DFA manufacturing work.
Notable leadership hires: Creative Director
Sesame is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, founded in 2023, with 51–200 employees. It builds voice-first AI experiences that combine in-house speech and multimodal models with dedicated electronics hardware. Engineering work covers embedded systems, audio DSP, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, GPU graphics, and cloud infrastructure managed through Terraform, CloudFormation and Pulumi. The team also runs manufacturing, industrial design, research and a small sales function, including an optical sales effort, with all hiring based in the United States.
Sesame uses C++, Python, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, QNX, AOSP and Qualcomm platforms for devices, PyTorch, JAX and TensorFlow for ML, WebRTC for real-time audio, and Terraform and Pulumi for infrastructure.
Sesame is building low-latency voice interface pipelines, stateful conversation systems, evaluation pipelines for speech and multimodal models, a faster model serving layer, and DFM/DFA manufacturing initiatives.
Sesame is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It was founded in 2023, has 51–200 employees, and hires only in the US.
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