Teams at Sesame (sesame.com)

Leads product engineering for consumer voice-agent products, driving outcomes, architecture, reliability, security, performance, deployment, and production operations. Remains hands-on with prototyping, debugging, and quality improvements while developing engineers and hiring a strong team. Partners with product and design, sets technical direction, and maintains a high product-quality bar. Requires extensive software engineering and people-management experience, including scalable distributed systems serving millions of users.

Leads new product introduction from prototype through mass production at Asian contract manufacturers. Responsibilities include manufacturing readiness, automation and tooling development, technical transfers, capacity and efficiency optimization, SPC and CPK monitoring, DFM/DFA initiatives, tolerance analysis, GD&T implementation, manufacturing systems deployment, supplier coordination, and cross-functional design collaboration. The role owns manufacturing specifications, budgets, requirements, and tool delivery schedules while ensuring quality, cost, and delivery targets.

Design and build core infrastructure for ML training, develop audio processing pipelines, and set technical direction for the team.