Terac, San Francisco
As a founding engineer, you're building the engine that matches every person on earth to the work they're meant to do. This page covers why Terac exists, what you'll own and how we work.
Everyone here works across the whole product. In one week you might improve expert onboarding, debug a payout, tune a recruitment agent and extend a customer integration.
You'll work closely with our Research Customers, Domain Experts, and Strategic Project Leads (SPLs), the people who run customer projects day to day. You find what matters most, build it and take it to production yourself.
Everything you ship touches a real person's work, data or money. When the matching gets better, someone lands better work. When a payout breaks, someone can't pay rent.
Our stack: TypeScript in a Bun monorepo, Next.js, tRPC, Postgres with Drizzle, Trigger.dev http://Trigger.dev for background jobs, Python on LiveKit for voice agents, and AWS.
Terac stands for The Efficient Resource Allocation Company. Before Uber, you stuck your thumb out and prayed a car would stop. Uber allocated rides efficiently and created opportunity for millions of drivers along the way. Labor is the largest resource in the world, and it's still allocated by luck.
Think about how you got every job you've had. You bumped into the right person at the right time. Most people on earth aren't in the job they'd be best at, and so much talent overseas is completely blocked from work it could do tomorrow.
We believe the best way to change someone's life is to give them work that pays them and fulfills them. We're building the engine that understands people 10 to 100 times deeper than their resume and routes them to the work they're best at.
AI training and market research are where we start, because they're the fastest feedback loop on labor: we know whether a match worked in minutes, not months. The tasks will keep changing. Understanding people and allocating them well is the part that lasts.
Ten months ago we were five people paying experts maybe $20K a year. Experts have now earned more than $3.4M on Terac, working for frontier AI labs and Fortune 500 companies.
We've raised $16M from Emergence Capital, SignalFire, SV Angel and others.
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