Founding AI Engineer

Founding AI Engineer position at Kinro

You will help define how Kinro builds software in the age of agents. This is a hands-on role for someone who has built AI products end-to-end, trusts agentic coding as a force multiplier, and can ship across product, backend, evals, and infrastructure with strong systems judgment.

What you'll do:

• Build AI product systems end-to-end, from tool use and backend services to evals and production monitoring.
• Use agentic coding tools aggressively and responsibly: break down large problems, set guardrails, and review generated work with high standards.
• Improve agent quality, latency, safety, and cost through better architectures, feedback loops, and evaluation harnesses.
• Work across the stack wherever leverage is highest, including product surfaces, infra primitives, and customer deployments.
• Turn one-off lessons from production into reusable product and platform capabilities.

What we're looking for:

• You have built AI products, agent workflows, or LLM systems end-to-end in production.
• You know when to trust an agent, when to intervene, and how to structure work so the agent succeeds.
• You understand tool calling, latency, reliability, security, and cost tradeoffs in agentic systems.
• You can reason across the stack: application code, APIs, databases, cloud systems, and operational tooling.
• You have strong product taste and care whether something feels simple, fast, and reliable for the end user.

Nice to have:

• Experience with evals, model routing, prompt injection defenses, sandboxing, or other AI systems safety work.
• Experience in high-ownership product environments where engineers talk directly to users and ship quickly.