We are looking for a Head of Engineering with 2-5 years of experience to lead product development and technical strategy at a first-mover neurotechnology company building the world's first software brain-computer interface. You are an ex-founder, former CTO, or early engineer at a high-growth startup who has built a killer product from 0→1 and thrived in the chaos of finding product-market fit. This is a founding leadership role at a company backed by investors in Oura, Canva, Coinbase, and SpaceX, building at the unique intersection of consumer health, neurotech, and voice AI.
What will you be doing?
We a neurotechnology company building the world's first software brain-computer interface. Our cognitive fitness tracker leverages voice as a biosignal to continuously measure cognitive changes: think Strava for your brain.
Founded by Jiali Zhang, a neuroscientist with a PhD from Oxford who previously decoded memories from neural data, Soma sits at the unique intersection of consumer health, neurotech, and voice AI: three of the hottest categories in technology today. The platform surfaces trends and insights on mental clarity, cognitive load, stress, and more, all through a purely software-based approach that requires no hardware devices.
Soma's mission is simple and ambitious: to make brain health accessible, measurable, and actionable.
We are backed by investors who backed Oura, Canva, Coinbase, and SpaceX at similar stages. Soma is a first mover in this space, building proprietary voice biomarker technology that detects cognitive and neurological changes from speech patterns.
The team is small, deeply technical, and design-forward: currently four people including the founder, operating out of their new office at Levi's Plaza near the Embarcadero in San Francisco.
Salary
$170,000 - $230,000
Equity
1% - 3%
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
2+ years
Last stage
Seed
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.