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Toma

AI for Underserved Industries

Founding Engineer (AI Products)

$140K - $220K*0.20% - 1.00%*San Francisco, CA
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
Will sponsor
Skills
Next.js, Node.js, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services
(AWS)
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Anthony Krivonos
Anthony Krivonos
Founder
Anthony Krivonos
Anthony Krivonos
Founder

About the role

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automotive and healthcare, where outdated systems persist due to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

About the interview

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

About Toma

At Toma, we're building something unorthodox--a fully AI-driven
platform reshaping how 18,000 car dealerships operate nationwide.

Our small team (from ex-Scale AI/Uber founders who've never owned
cars, to a pro Valorant player, robotics champion, motocross racer,
and more) spent months living and breathing the space to learn the
ropes.

Toma
Toma
Founded:2024
Batch:W24
Team Size:20
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
  
 
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