Cartesia

The State Space Models lab opens a Bangalore FDE seat — the same real-time voice-AI deployment role it runs in SF and London, now planted in India's enterprise market. A second Cartesia geo on the board and one of the few founding-era FDE roles anchored in Bengaluru.

Founded by the Stanford AI Lab PhDs who invented State Space Models — now embedding FDEs to push agentic voice into on-prem and VPC enterprise stacks. $180K–$250K + equity for 4 years' backend is mid-band, but the SSM pedigree and Databricks/Index/Lightspeed cap table are the real comp.