Founding Engineer (AI Products)

We're building the AI platform for underserved industries.

LLM usage has seen a meteoric rise in the past year, but there is still a significant gap between agentic innovation and its use in the real world. This is especially true for underserved industries like automotive and healthcare, where outdated systems persist due to barriers to entry, legacy software, and high-stakes consequences of hallucinations and failure.

Here at Toma (YC W24), we are bridging this gap by providing a customer-centric platform to deploy and monitor AI agents, even for non-technical users. We recently raised a $17M Series A from a16z and are building the future of human-AI interactions, starting in the automotive industry.

Our Team

We’re assembling a team of Avengers: engineers, product managers, former founders, athletes, and leaders from Scale AI, Uber, Braze, Microsoft, Amazon, and more. We consider everyone regardless of their backgrounds or identities. Learn more about us here.

About this Role

We’re looking for a Founding Engineer hungry for ownership and eager to drive real impact. In this role, you’ll have the autonomy to build new AI-powered features, influence product direction, and help fuel our growth. You’ll partner closely with product and design to deliver fast, reliable, and magical user experiences, and your work will directly shape the future of our platform.

This role is hands-on: you’ll build net-new products, write production code, and see your work go live with real customers quickly.

What you will do

• Take ownership of net new AI features and products (dashboard, real-time voice AI, support tooling)
• Write production-grade TypeScript across the stack (Next.js, Bun)
• Help guide teammates through code reviews and technical discussions
• Collaborate with Product and Design to set priorities and ship quickly
• Integrate intelligent features into the product experience and drive growth
• Work closely with customers to translate their feedback into improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in TypeScript, low-level Node.js (Bun), T3 Stack (Next.js, React, Prisma, PostgreSQL, NextAuth, tRPC)
• 1+ years of experience building and scaling full-stack web applications
• Desire to own projects end-to-end in a fast-paced environment
• Passion for learning, craft, and shipping high-quality features quickly
• Desire to continuously learn

Don’t think you meet all the qualifications? Apply anyway. We’d love to hear what excites you about us, and we may have a role that's a good fit for you.

Benefits

• MacBook Pro 16" M4 Max (or newest high-end equivalent)
• Free daily in-office lunch and dinners
• Competitive salary with meaningful equity
• Free health, dental, and vision insurance
• Weekly team outings and customer visits
• Unlimited PTO

1. Intro screen
2. 45-minute technical screen
3. 6-hour onsite
4. Flexible work trial