Toolkit is building the world’s first ERP compiler:
⚡ Toolkit invented a way to create customized ERPs directly from spreadsheets at zero-marginal cost. It uses an ML + compiler architecture and takes minutes rather than years to implement.
💡 Because manufacturing ERPs are stuck in the 1980s: slow, low-quality, and built by expensive consultants.
💰 $124B/year dinosaur industry. Toolkit is architected to become the first winner-take-all ERP.
🛠️ Deeply technical founders, backed by the fund that backed Brex, Snowflake & Anduril ($3.4M Seed raised Q4 2024).
🚀 Founders forge founders. Join Toolkit to solve real, hard problems, then start your own company after.
→ Watch Phil’s 2-minute Demo Day pitch from last October.
🦾 About this Role
You'll be one of multiple Founding Engineers coming on board. You'll own major parts of the codebase, product decisions, and help grow the team. You'll work closely with Phil & Michael.
You'll be engineering novel solutions to well-understood problems for non-technical users (American manufacturers).
🫵 About You
We only care that you are highly intelligent and highly adaptable. We love “spiky” people who, whatever their nature, turn it up to 11.
Non-Technical Aspects
- In-person in SF
- Bonus: You aspire to use your experience at Toolkit to start your own future company.
Technical Aspects
- Production software experience: You’ve suffered the consequences of your code.
- Full-stack: You are well-versed in modern web stacks, both frontend and backend. We use Typescript & React, but we know you can learn those. Preferably you have experience building enterprise or business software applications.
- Bonus: You are interested and/or experienced in codegen/code mod and compiler architectures.
🤓 Who You’ll Be Working With
**Phil: Co-Founder, CEO**
- Stanford EE undergrad & CS master’s, top 1%
- Lived the ERP problem at manufacturers since age 15
- Built hardware and software for satellites @ Capella Space, robots @ Google X, drones @ PRENAV
- Built Bitcoin B2B payment SaaS @ River, which won El Salvador’s government as its first customer
- Loves to read & write sci-fi 🔭⚛️🌃 and deadlift 🏋️
**Michael: Co-Founder, CTO**
- Repeat founder: started his first VC-backed company age 16, dynamically pricing $500mm of inventory.
- Co-established a $110m early-stage fund Jigsaw at age 26, where he built the precursor tech to Toolkit.
- Obsessed with ERPs: built his first one at age 12.
- Built Leaf, a high-performance ML-framework in 2014 with 5K stars on GitHub.
- Non-professional pugilist 🥊
📈 Why Bet Your Time on Toolkit
- Elitism: We have a very high bar; you'll be on a small team of extremely talented, driven engineers, operating with high agency. If we do our job right, we will be the next PayPal mafia.
- Influence: This work will make you a co-creator of the post-single-point SaaS era, establishing compiled SaaS, which will dominate the coming decade.