About Cartesia
Our mission is to build the next generation of AI: ubiquitous, interactive intelligence that runs wherever you are. Today, not even the best models can continuously process and reason over a year-long stream of audio, video and text—1B text tokens, 10B audio tokens and 1T video tokens—let alone do this on-device.
We're pioneering the model architectures that will make this possible. Our founding team met as PhDs at the Stanford AI Lab, where we invented State Space Models or SSMs, a new primitive for training efficient, large-scale foundation models. Our team combines deep expertise in model innovation and systems engineering paired with a design-minded product engineering team to build and ship cutting edge models and experiences.
We're funded by leading investors at Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, along with Factory, Conviction, A Star, General Catalyst, SV Angel, Databricks and others. We're fortunate to have the support of many amazing advisors, and 90+ angels across many industries, including the world's foremost experts in AI.
The role
We're hiring a Product Engineer to advance our mission of building real-time multimodal intelligence. In this role, you'll:
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Be the driving force behind new products, taking them from concept to launch with a focus on professional-grade utility and smooth user onboarding
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Translate the latest AI research into practical, high-performance products
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Design and implement intuitive interfaces that make frontier AI capabilities accessible
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Prototype and launch new AI-driven products and experiences
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Work closely with our customers to make sure they're successful
You'll have significant autonomy to shape our products and directly impact how cutting-edge AI is applied across various devices and applications.
What we're looking for
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Technical leadership with the ability to execute and deliver zero-to-one results amidst ambiguity.
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You have an eye for new product experiences and opportunities and can envision how to make novel AI experiences a reality.
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Strong full-stack engineering skills enable you to rapidly prototype and iterate on ideas from end to end, and later, build them for scale and to last.
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You're comfortable diving into new technologies and can quickly adapt your skills to our tech stack (Go and Python on the backend, Next.js for the frontend)
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You have a great design sense and can create intuitive user interfaces (Figma skills are a plus!)
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You're good at working with customers and translating their feedback into great product experiences
Our culture
🏢 We’re an in-person team based out of San Francisco. We love being in the office, hanging out together and learning from each other everyday.
🚢 We ship fast. All of our work is novel and cutting edge, and execution speed is paramount. We have a high bar, and we don’t sacrifice quality and design along the way.
🤝 We support each other. We have an open and inclusive culture that’s focused on giving everyone the resources they need to succeed.
Our perks
🍽 Lunch, dinner and snacks at the office.
🏥 Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.
🏦 401(k).
✈️ Relocation and immigration support.
🦖 Your own personal Yoshi.
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