Advanced technology for you and me
The internet today feels a little too much like a shopping mall where every business rents and every person is the product. We need alternative space; digital networks where you can live and work freely.
This problem will be getting worse now that AI is making software infinitely malleable. What's left of value will be your data, your connections — your digital life.
New technological ground is needed to ensure your data drives value for you, your connections stay yours and your digital life remains private. On this land, malleability is freedom.
That's why we're building Tonk — software that runs locally, syncs between peers and belongs entirely to you. It's human-scale software that spreads between people like files, woven through communities like stories and lasts as long as you need them.
And we're building it in the open, together with you. Come build with us.
The team
Tonk is a venture-backed startup. In the past we have built games, social apps, and developer tools on decentralised networks using powerful new cryptography. We are backed by world-class investors and angels. Individual team members have backgrounds at UC Berkeley, Cambridge University, Airbnb, Epic Games, and successful startups.
We're creative & multidisciplinary, with deep backgrounds in art, dance and theatre.
Careers
Tonk is a home for highly-motivated, creative people. If:
- You want to solve historic problems at the frontier of AI, distributed systems and cryptography,
- You want to join an engineering team that traverses from research to reality on a daily basis,
- You're thoughtful about technology & our responsibility to leave the world in a better & more beautiful state than we found it,
- You crave that feeling when you're growing uncomfortably fast, alongside a team that challenges & supports you,
- You're hungry for creative ownership, without the burdens of bureaucratic overhead,
Then you should apply.