Sesame
iOS Engineer
San Francisco · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 401 days ago
iOSAndroidWebSocketsUX DesignVoIPLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- Our team brings together founders from Oculus and Ubiquity6, alongside proven leaders from Meta, Google, and Apple, with deep expertise spanning hardware and software.
- Join us in shaping a future where computers truly come alive.
Responsibilities
- Build Sesame's standalone companion app - the foundation for a new consumer product category - on a team that highly values craft and quality.
- Work with multiple teams across engineering, design, and product to ship complex projects that delight users.
- Help build the iOS team at Sesame by providing leadership on best practices and modern iOS app design.
- Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human.
Requirements
- Proven technical leader who has taken primary responsibility for shipping apps or major features to production multiple times
- Lots of hands-on experience with the software development lifecycle of iOS apps: build trains, test strategy, and the latest UI architecture patterns.
Nice to have
- Experience building complex or advanced ui that required you to step off the golden path of the SDK.
- Experience with real-time communications, including WebRTC, Websockets, audio/video codecs, compression protocols, etc.
- Expertise in managing battery drain in complex applications, including media or graphics-intensive applications.
- Experience integrating BLE peripherals on iOS.
- Metal or other graphics/shader experience.
- Contributions to open-source iOS projects or a strong personal portfolio of iOS applications.
- Sesame is committed to a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered.
- We welcome all qualified applicants, embracing diversity in race, gender, identity, orientation, ability, and more.
Compensation
- 401 (k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents
- Unlimited PTO and sick time
- Flexible spending account with employer matching up to $1,650/year (medical FSA)
- Opportunity to share in the company's success with competitive stock options
- Benefits do not apply to contingent/contract workers.
- With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice agents part of our daily lives.
This listing is sourced directly from Sesame's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.