Android Engineer Job at Sesame (San Francisco)

Android Engineer

Sesame

Location:
United States , San Francisco ▼
New York
Bellevue

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

175000.00 - 280000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

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. With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice agents part of our daily lives. 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.

Job Responsibility:

Build Sesame’s standalone companion app
Provide leadership on modern Android UI and UX best practices
Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and product to ship complex features
Partner with other Android, iOS, and web engineers to help shape the long-term mobile and web strategy for Sesame

Requirements:

Strong intuition and well-formed opinions about Android app design, UI, and UX, and modern mobile aesthetics
A portfolio of beautiful, useful Android apps that you built or played a major role in
You care deeply about building products people genuinely love
The engineering challenge of crafting fast, fluid, and inventive Android interfaces excites you
You have an intuitive sense for performance
You stay plugged into the Android ecosystem
Hands-on experience with the full mobile development lifecycle: release trains, test strategy, device-matrix testing, and modern Android architecture patterns such as unidirectional data flow, MVVM, and coroutine-based async programming

Nice to have:

Experience with Jetpack Compose or other modern declarative UI frameworks
Familiarity with Jetpack libraries and modern tooling in the Android ecosystem
Experience with real-time communication, including WebRTC, WebSockets, audio and video codecs, or other low-latency media pipelines
Expertise in managing battery and performance tradeoffs in complex applications
Experience integrating BLE peripherals on Android
Graphics and shader experience, such as OpenGL, Vulkan, or other GPU-accelerated rendering work
Contributions to open source Android projects or a strong personal portfolio of polished Android applications
Experience building consumer AI products
Experience solving uniquely Android problems at scale

What we offer:

401k matching
100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits
Unlimited PTO and sick time
Flexible spending account matching (medical FSA)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 20, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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