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 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.

Role responsibilities

We're looking for former Founders, Co-Founders and CTOs to join the team to lead on Special Projects within the company. This role will work directly with our CEO and existing Founders and will collaborate closely with every team within Cartesia. In this role, you'll:

• Work on true 0-1 GTM initiatives

• Partner with our customers to understand how they’re interacting with our models and sharing any actionable insights and feedback with our engineering teams

• Building and scaling new products quickly - if you enjoy shipping, this is the role for you!

• 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:

• Founded, co-founded or led technical teams at a startup

• Good understanding of both technical and business problems within early stage companies

• Have led 0-1 initiatives and can demonstrate clear impact in shipping products

• A commercial mindset and ability to partner with GTM teams

Even if you don’t meet every requirement above, we'd encourage you to apply.

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.