- Last Published
- Feb. 3, 2025
- Sector
- AI/ML
- Function
- Design
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:
- Further our core products, and create new offerings through design leadership.
- Lead the design process by gathering requirements, planning, and brainstorming at the start of each project.
- Design and implement intuitive interfaces that make frontier AI capabilities accessible.
- Optimize for performance, accessibility, and usability, ensuring a top-tier user experience.
- Contribute to and refine our design systems.
- 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
- Technical leadership with the ability to execute and deliver zero-to-one results amidst ambiguity.
- An eye for new product experiences and opportunities, envisioning how to make novel AI experiences a reality.
- A strong intuition for visual design (layout, typography, color, motion).
- Deep attention to detail and an emphasis on craft—as expressed through polish, accessibility, and performance.
- Strong frontend engineering skills enable you to rapidly prototype and iterate on ideas from end to end.
- 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.