# Research Engineer at Sesame AI

- Company: Sesame AI
- What the company does: Sesame builds personal agents for curious people. Follow a thought. Work out an idea. Discover something new. Preview available now on iOS. Coming to intelligent eyewear in 2027. Backed by Sequoia and Redpoint.
- Company website: https://www.sesame.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $320K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sesame/5e846cd7-5719-440c-b8ef-2fba501847ae
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sesame-ai-research-engineer/

## About the role

New and novel approaches are needed to realize all of our product goals. As a Research engineer at Sesame, you are a research-oriented person with experience in NLP, Speech, and/or Computer Vision with a focus on deep learning. You are up to date on recent papers and approaches and you have the creativity and the intuition to come up with new solutions based on the application at hand.

## What they're looking for

- Expert-level PyTorch
- Proven software engineer who loves ML, comfortable writing production code across the stack
- Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning large language or other large-scale models with a variety of techniques
- Evaluation expert — you’ve designed metrics and harnesses that actually predict user happiness
- Deep knowledge of the ML lifecycle: dataset ops, training pipelines, eval frameworks, deployment, and monitoring
- History of shipping complex projects to production—especially user-facing, online ML systems—despite shifting requirements and surprise roadblocks

Tags: Machine Learning