Head of Engineering
About this role
Soma is a neurotechnology company building the world's first software brain computer interface. The cognitive fitness tracker (think Strava for the brain) surfaces trends and insights on mental clarity, cognitive load, stress, and more. Mission: make brain health accessible, measurable, and actionable. Soma is hiring a Head of Engineering to drive technical roadmap and scale the team that will enable a new frontier for health and performance.
About the role
This is a founding leadership role. We are looking for someone who can zoom out to set architecture and roadmap direction, and zoom in to ship code alongside the team. You will work closely with our Founder to drive product direction and iteration, and own everything from infrastructure and reliability to engineering culture and hiring. We want someone deeply hands-on, who has lived in the trenches of 0→1 product development, and who knows when to build for scale and when to move fast and clean it up later.
Ideal qualifications
- 2+ years of experience building product at an early stage start up
- Shipped product people genuinely love, from 0→1
- Has driven engineering efforts in scrappy, fast paced environments with strong instincts about what matters at this stage
- Product engineer at heart: comfortable with ambiguity, willing to get into user research and data, able to translate fuzzy product goals into clean technical decisions
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, designing and testing user-facing interventions, and doing product work (user interviews, experiment design, metric analysis)
- Experience with cloud-based product architecture at scale
The kind of person we're looking for: high energy, low ego, deeply mission-driven. Someone who pushes hard and brings out the best in the people around them. Equally comfortable in a product strategy conversation and a code review.
Nice to haves
- Native mobile development (iOS/Android), or managing teams who do
- Hands-on with RAG pipelines, agentic systems, or LLM-based products
- Background in consumer health or wellness technology
More info
Competitive salary, equity package, benefits, and flexible PTO.
Apply: send resume, portfolio, and other relevant links to [email protected].
Company at a glance
Soma is a neurotechnology company developing the world's first software brain-computer interface, making brain health measurable and actionable without proprietary hardware. Based in San Francisco, it is a pre-launch consumer software company backed by notable investors, pursuing a seed round.
Top Benefits
- Meaningful equity at seed stage
- SF on-site (Levi's Plaza)
- Closing seed with named lead investor
- Working directly with founder
What happens next
Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.
Culture & values
Mission-driven (brain health)
Founder-led, hands-on
Design-led consumer product
Scientific rigor + scrappy execution
In-person in SF
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