Product Engineer

Tolan is an Embodied Companion: a cute, friendly AI alien that you talk with naturally, like a friend. They have unique preferences and personalities, and over time they form memories about you, your friendship, and your life.

Tolan is built by an experienced team with a lot of history together. We previously founded Even, acquired for $300m in 2022. Our engineering team comes from places like Apple, Square, and character.ai. Our design and creative team has won Apple Design Awards and designed products like Facebook, Dropbox, and Poparazzi. We love to work hard, with a high degree of autonomy and ownership. We work together in-person in downtown SF.

The role

Product engineers build the Tolan iOS app. You will work closely with one member of our design team to own a substantial part of the product, from prototyping through to production. As you ship to production, you will talk with users and review metrics to evaluate the success of what you have shipped and how you’ll evolve it.

You might be a fit if you:

• Primarily work as an iOS engineer, even if you have worked on other platforms or up and down the stack
• Have built products with complex audio / video stacks
• Do your best work on a small team or solo
• Know when to follow patterns—and when to break them to make something entirely new
• Build by prototyping, iterating, and shipping. You believe it’s not real until it’s in users' hands
• Have deeply integrated AI into how you work
• Love to ship quickly and make contact with reality as often as possible

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If you think you may be a fit to join us, please email evidence of great work to hiring@portola.ai‍