ML Technical Lead, Agentic Interactions

About Sandbar Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to augment individuals so we can each think, act, and move more 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 self extension—a private voice ring and conversational interface. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, & Wired, and begins shipping in Summer '26. Join us in creating technology that extends human thinking. About We're looking for a tech lead to design self-aligned agentic experiences in Stream, and lead the tightly focused team building it. Stream is a self extension, where personalization, privacy, and individual control are paramount. This is a hands-on lead role for a consumer product, not a platform or research role. You will set the technical direction, build the end-user experience, and be responsible for an that agent works in the hands of general customers. You will work directly with the founders and the backend, iOS, and ML engineers building Stream. Responsibilities Lead architecture, strategy, and tradeoffs for our ML-based productsDesign and improve user-facing model-based experiences, including agentic control, conversational interactions, and information retrieval. Develop infrastructure to rapidly develop, evaluate, and deploy modelsOptimize inference pipelines for latency, reliability, and concurrencyWork closely with other ML/AI engineers, infrastructure engineers, designers, and cofounders on existing and future products Qualifications 6+ years in machine learning experienceExperience shipping ML-based products is requiredExperience in large-language model evaluation and post-training is requiredExperience in audio / voice ML is a plusComfortable writing production-grade softwarePassion for human-computer interactionExperience setting technical direction and driving execution with multidisciplinary teams FTE Benefits Health, vision, and dental benefitsCompany-sponsored 401(k)Unlimited PTO and sick timeEarly stage equity Compensation Range: $230K - $290K