# AI/ML Engineer

Government technology has failed citizens, veterans, public servants, and service members for decades. Kaizen powers America’s application layer. We replace the legacy systems federal agencies run on with modern software, built with craft. The ticketing platform a resident uses to visit a presidential library. The marketplace DoW uses to procure counter-drone systems to protect lives and critical infrastructure. The system a Veteran uses to access benefits. We build systems of record, of national consequence. Our AI-native modules and harness allow us to do so in weeks, not years. This year, our revenue has grown 35x. Next year, our software will serve over 100 million Americans across dozens of federal agencies. Founded in 2022 and based in New York City and DC, Kaizen has raised $35 million from NEA, a16z, Accel, 776, and Carpenter Capital. Location New York, NY (Hybrid). In office Monday to Thursday. Candidates must live in or be able to commute to New York City. The Role Most companies building with AI connect someone else's models to their software. Kaizen's AI-native platform turns requirements into working applications, and today much of that intelligence comes from general-

- **Id**: 4215240
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kaizen-labs-aiml-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T20:20:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T02:33:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6036
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Gym membership, Home office, Life insurance, Parental leave, Professional development, Unlimited PTO
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: National Security, Digital Government

## Company

- **Id**: 16361
- **Name**: Kaizen Labs
- **Domain**: kaizenlabs.co
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kaizenlabs>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 240000
- **Max**: 280000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 280000

## Technologies

- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **PPO** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **SFT** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no
- **Tokenization** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T02:33:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T04:19:58Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 280000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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