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 Design Engineer to advance our mission of building real-time multimodal intelligence. In this role, you'll:

1. Further our core products, and create new offerings through design leadership.

2. Lead the design process by gathering requirements, planning, and brainstorming at the start of each project.

3. Design and implement intuitive interfaces that make frontier AI capabilities accessible.

4. Optimize for performance, accessibility, and usability, ensuring a top-tier user experience.

5. Contribute to and refine our design systems.

6. Mentor and advocate for other designers and engineers, grow the team and elevate craft within Cartesia.

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

1. Technical leadership with the ability to execute and deliver zero-to-one results amidst ambiguity.

2. An eye for new product experiences and opportunities, envisioning how to make novel AI experiences a reality.

3. A strong intuition for visual design (layout, typography, color, motion).

4. Deep attention to detail and an emphasis on craft—as expressed through polish, accessibility, and performance.

5. Strong frontend engineering skills enable you to rapidly prototype and iterate on ideas from end to end.

6. 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.