About the role
About Sandbar Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to augment individuals in an agentic world—to think, act, and move freely. Our team has built SW, ML, and HW products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Google, Apple, Fitbit, Peloton, and Equinox. Our first product, Stream, is a new human-agent interface—a private voice ring and conversational computer. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, & Wired, and begins shipping in Summer '26. Join us in creating a new interface for self augmentation. About We’re looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build Stream, a new conversational interface. You will be responsible for developing a highly scalable real-time production service with various steps of ML and data processing. You’ll work closely with other mobile and firmware engineers to deliver the foundations for new human-computer interactions.
Responsibilities Architect a high-uptime, low-maintenance, and reliable distributed inference system Lead observability and oncall Achieve very low latency & jitter with attention to P99 performance Develop a safe rollout to production process in partnership with ML, SW, and mobile engineers Implement data pipelines for user-facing features and internal tooling
Qualifications Proficient in Python and Javascript Experience in shipping consumer facing interactive real-time services 2+ years owning a live production system in a small team, for large N of users 2+ years working in a big infra teams (Google / Meta / etc) Technical leadership for building a robust process with
the team Strong ownership on healthy live service FTE
Benefits Health, vision, and dental
benefits Unlimited PTO and sick time Early stage equity
About Sandbar
Creating Stream, a self-extension for building ideas, and Stream Ring, the mouse for voice.
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Job details
Salary
$160,000 - $220,000
Location
New York, NY
Funding
Total raised
$23M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
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