FromNOWWherever you are
To2045The futures we build
- Crew
- 46
- Bases
- 4
- Open seats
- 8
- Since
- 2023
- Gate
- Careers
- Origin
- Cần Thơ
Careers · 8 open roles
Build the futures students visit first.
We build science-grounded future worlds for classrooms, then help students ship their best answers into the real world. We need engineers, writers, teachers, designers, and organisers who want their work to matter beyond the app.
01Why WTF
A company built around one question.
In Cần Thơ, a student typed “where the future?” into a class chat after a flood. We are still answering her. Give every young person a seat at the table where the future is decided.
Your work leaves the screen
Student solutions running in the real world, not minutes in app. When students design something good, it gets built on a real street, in a real clinic, along a real canal. So far that has happened 37 times.
Your toughest reviewers are teenagers
The Council of 2045 can veto any feature that touches minors’ data. You will present work to them, and they will push back. It makes the product better.
Small team, whole problems
We are 46 people. Engineers sit with world-builders, teachers sit with designers, and almost everyone spends time in a classroom each term.
02Values
What we expect of each other.
These are the rules we hire for, argue with, and use to break ties. We expect you to hold us to them too.
Go there first
Prototype before you argue. A rough world we can walk through beats a perfect slide deck about one.
Kids are clients, not users
Students are the people we answer to. We design for their judgment, not their attention span or their screen time.
Keep the typo
Bold over polished. Our name is a 13-year-old’s grammar mistake, and we would rather ship something brave than something tidy.
Every future is plural
There is no single right answer to 2045. Portals reward reasoning, trade-offs, and dissent, not guessing what the teacher wants.
Safety is the floor, not the feature
Child safety is the minimum to be allowed in the room. We never market it, and we never trade it for growth.
03Open roles
8 seats open right now.
Hiring across 7 teams, in our offices, in the cities where we run pilots, and remote across Southeast Asia. Every role is open to people without a degree if the work shows the skill.
Engineering
Senior Simulation Engineer, Tide
Extend Tide, our agent-based simulation engine, so a classroom of 40 can play out flooding, heat, budgets, and public trust over decades in seconds. You will work with climate and health reviewers to keep every Portal scientifically honest.
- Location
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Type
- Full-time
Trust & Safety
AI Safety Engineer
Build the guardrails, evaluations, and red-team tooling behind every AI citizen and Future Self conversation. You will present your work to the Council of 2045, and they can say no.
- Location
- Singapore or remote (Southeast Asia)
- Type
- Full-time
World-building
World Builder, Narrative
Write the futures students visit: characters, conflicts, and choices that feel real to a 14-year-old and hold up to a scientist. Game-writing or interactive-fiction experience matters more than a degree.
- Location
- Cần Thơ
- Type
- Full-time
Learning
Learning Designer, Science & Civics
Map Portals to the science and civics curriculum, design the evidence behind Future Passport skills, and run classroom trials with teachers. Classroom teaching experience required.
- Location
- Hà Nội or remote (Vietnam)
- Type
- Full-time
Cities & Partnerships
Partnerships Manager, Philippines
Bring Problems Bank to Philippine cities: find real problems worth a Portal, line up pilot sites and budgets, and see student solutions through to measured results.
- Location
- Manila
- Type
- Full-time
Growth & Schools
School Success Manager
Own a portfolio of partner schools: onboard teachers, run Portal days in classrooms, and make sure every school renews because students asked for it.
- Location
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Type
- Full-time
Product
Product Designer, Portal Studio
Design the tools students and teachers use to build their own future worlds — maps, roles, AI citizens, and rules — simple enough for a grade-7 class and deep enough for our own world-builders.
- Location
- Ho Chi Minh City or remote (Southeast Asia)
- Type
- Full-time
Growth & Schools
Community Lead, Indonesia
Grow the teacher community around the Jakarta pilot: run workshops, translate and adapt Portal materials into Bahasa Indonesia, and bring teacher feedback straight to the world-building team.
- Location
- Jakarta
- Type
- Contract
No seat that fits? Write to careers@wherethefuture.org and tell us what you would build. We read every message.
04How we hire
5 steps, no surprises.
Most processes take three to four weeks from first message to decision. We tell you where you stand at every step, and you can ask to pause at any point.
Write to us
Send a CV or portfolio to careers@wherethefuture.org with the role in the subject line. Add a few sentences about a future you would want students to visit. No cover-letter template needed, and imperfect English is fine — our name is a typo.
A conversation, not a quiz
A short video call with the hiring manager about the role, your work, and what you want next. You will leave knowing the salary range and the full process.
A paid work sample
A small task drawn from real work: a Portal scene, a guardrail review, a pilot plan. It takes a few hours at most, we pay for your time, and you keep the rights to it.
Meet the team
Meet the people you would work with most. For roles that touch students, this includes members of the Council of 2045, and a safeguarding background check before any offer.
A clear answer
We reply to everyone who applies, and we explain our decision. If it is a yes, the offer comes in writing with salary, equity, and start date in the same document.
Gate open
Come build the way there.
Send your work to careers@wherethefuture.org. Tell us which future you would build first.