Cartesia
cartesia.ai
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Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
27
+7 posted in 30 days
Backers
6
Dell Technologies Capital, Kleiner Perkins
Momentum
25/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 13
First sales or marketing role Strategic Partnerships Manager
Feb 20
First role in India Research Engineer, Data (India)
Dec 12, 2024
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: New Cartesia Text-to-Speech Model
2022
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
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How Cartesia hires
Truth index
A 91/100
Median time to fill
170 days
Ghost roles
7%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Cartesia scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 27 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 7% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 170 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Cartesia is an artificial intelligence research and technology company that builds real-time, low-latency generative voice models for interactive applications. Founded by Stanford researchers, the company utilizes State Space Models (SSMs) to power its flagship text-to-speech platform, Sonic, which enables sub-second voice synthesis, instant voice cloning, and emotional expression across dozens of languages. By providing real-time speech generation and voice agent infrastructure, Cartesia allows developers and enterprises to power conversational AI systems, virtual assistants, and customer service platforms.
News
Cartesia Introducing Sonic-3.6
Sonic-3.6 makes huge strides compared to Sonic-3.5 in naturalness and quality, with listeners preferring it in up to 93% of blind head-to-head tests across fifteen locales.
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Cartesia Introducing Sonic-3.6 and Ink-2
Build your entire voice stack with one model provider - the only one ranked #1 on both speech and transcription.
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Text to Speech Leaderboard - Top AI Speech Models Artificial Analysis
Compare Text to Speech models based on user preferences in blind comparisons.
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Blue Machines AI, Cartesia Partner to Offer India-Resident Low-Latency Voice AI Solutions
Blue Machines AI and Cartesia have partnered to provide India-resident low-latency Voice AI solutions for enterprises focusing on sectors such as banking and healthcare, enhancing multilingual support and compliance with regulatory requirements.
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Tencent Cloud and Cartesia Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Real-Time Voice AI Experiences
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Tencent Cloud and Cartesia find a rare common voice in AI speech applications
Tencent Cloud is joining forces with US start-up Cartesia to bring low-latency, humanlike voice AI to markets from Southeast Asia to Africa.
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Cartesia Hierarchical modeling
Introducing H-Nets, hierarchical architectures that learn directly from raw data by grouping inputs into higher-level concepts, overcoming tokenization limits.
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Cartesia 'Tis the Hackathon season at Cartesia
October 2024 was a busy month for Cartesia. We brought together over 2,000 builders across San Francisco and gave away $20,000 in prizes for the most innovative ideas built on Sonic.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Cartesia over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
56
Postings analysed
45
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python20%
JavaScript18%
Go13%
TypeScript11%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js13%
Next.js9%
Django2%
Radix UI2%
Cloud & platforms
Databricks93%
Kubernetes7%
AWS4%
GCP4%
AI & ML
LLM7%
Claude4%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$95k – $375k
Open positions
24
14
Jobs
Junior
21.4%
Middle
21.4%
Senior
35.7%
Staff
21.4%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 3 | $150k | $125k – $180k |
| Middle | 3 | $180k | $95k – $230k |
| Senior | 5 | $270k | $200k – $280k |
| Staff | 3 | $375k | $375k |
Highest paying role
Engineering Manager, Data
$375k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Cartesia
By role, level and city, against the market · 24 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
65/100
Growing
Open positions
27
4 opened / 9 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
71 days
faster than 18% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
21% ▲
AI/ML
16% ▼
Leadership
16% ▼
Product
11% ▼
Backend
5% ▼
DevOps
5% ▼
Actively hiring for Sales (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Ray to stack
Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack
Sep 2026
Added HubSpot to stack
Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack
Sep 2026
Added Dimensional Modeling to stack
Sep 2026
Added dbt to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Vercel AI SDK to stack
Sep 2026
Added Voice Agents to stack
Sep 2026
Added TPU to stack
Sep 2026
Added WhatsApp to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
3
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
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23 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 39% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $267k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Sales, Leadership
Bengaluru
India
Plant / site
2 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $95k Avg Salary
hires for Support, Solutions
London
United Kingdom
Plant / site
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Product
Jobs
≈ $11k – $32k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bengaluru
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Databricks
AI/ML
AI Agents
Edge AI
Management
Slack
WhatsApp
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$200k – $350k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Databricks
AI/ML
Ray
DevOps
Kubernetes
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$250k – $375k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • San Francisco
Databricks
AI/ML
Voice Agents
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$180k – $250k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
SQL
Databricks
AI/ML
dbt
LLM
Machine Learning
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Dimensional Modeling
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$250k – $375k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Databricks
AI/ML
Machine Learning
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≈ $129k – $305k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • London
Databricks
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude Code
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$100k – $150k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Databricks
AI/ML
AI Agents
Edge AI
Management
Slack
WhatsApp
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$250k – $375k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Databricks
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Pre-training
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$180k – $250k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Databricks
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Post-training
Pre-training
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$180k – $250k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Databricks
AI/ML
Claude
Multimodal AI
LLM
OpenAI Agents SDK
Text-to-Speech
LiveKit
Voice Agents
Vercel AI SDK
DevOps
WebRTC
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$220k – $280k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • San Francisco
Databricks
AI/ML
AI Agents
Management
Slack
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$74k – $95k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bengaluru
Databricks
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
DevOps
GCP
AWS
Kubernetes
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