Tonk Labs is hiring. In this role, you will:

• Craft historically-significant technology in a moonshot attempt to build a new and better internet;
• Operate within a high-performing team, with a proven track record, on an astoundingly ambitious trajectory;
• In a well-resourced, creative & mindful problem-solving environment.

Why it’s a compelling opportunity for the right person

1. Tonk Labs is moving unbelievably fast and supported by the best,
2. This is a rare chance to work on era-defining technology, with the world’s leading experts at the other end of the phone when you need it,
3. Spiritually, this is a chance to work on something that not only matters but has the chance to improve the lives of billions,
4. We have access to resources that are atypical for a startup,
5. And have cultivated a tight-knit, high-trust, high-autonomy, high-performance culture.
6. More stuff that you’ll get to define!

About Tonk Labs

Tonk is an in-person, London-based startup.

Right now, we’re building tools so that creative people can have their own little internet. From a technical perspective this means bringing down the cost of interoperability between applications by building a maximally interoperable data network between small-scale AI-built apps.

This network is necessary to service the incoming explosion of “personal software” - where AI brings development costs to 0 and so creates a huge market for regular people to create billions of highly bespoke apps to share with their friends, family, coworkers & communities. For these local apps to be useful they need to be able to read any kind of data from anywhere else. Ideally it should be as simple as calling user.isParent? , conference.address() or similar, from any application, and users sharing any information they permit. This dream presents a huge interoperability challenge but one that is fundamentally tractable for a team like Tonk thanks to recent progress in ZK, sync engines, and other programmable cryptography.

Our mission is to tear down the internet and build a better one. We weren't content with the growing cost and inconvenience of a web centred around platforms, so in 2022 we decided to do something about it. Since then we have drawn on progress in advanced peer-to-peer systems, including zero-knowledge proofs, digital signatures, blockchain, local-first software & programmable cryptography. Tonk is supported by Electric Capital, Bankless Ventures, Entrepreneur First and a community of angels leading many of the most exciting P2P innovations today.

The role you’ll play