{"id":827575,"url":"https://alion.io/job/kinelo-senior-staff-software-engineer","title":"Senior/ Staff Software Engineer","company":{"id":683243,"name":"Kinelo","domain":"kinelo.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/kinelo","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":202000,"max_usd":378000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1500},"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"Synthetic Data","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":true},{"name":"Redis","optional":true},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-04-01T19:02:57Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-10","last_verified_at":"2026-11-03T16:10:44Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":216,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":215},"description":"SENIOR/ STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER\nAt Kinelo, we are rethinking organizational structure, corporate hierarchy, and how people work together with machines. Today, we're building the context layer that connects the tools teams already use into persistent memory that AI agents can reason over and act on. We're heading toward a world where AI coworkers work alongside humans at every level of a new kind of fast-moving, hyperefficient organization, with purpose and responsibilities, not just tasks.\nWe're a small, seed-stage company that just opened an office in San Francisco. We're looking to hire two Product Engineers to collaborate closely with each other and with the AI agents and coworkers that will support them.\nThis is a technical role for software engineers excited to use the leverage that AI allows in producing code to allow focus on higher order technical architecture, product requirements, and user needs. Your job as Product Engineer is to see around the corners in the market, our product, and its technical implementation. You should have immense software wisdom, the kind not yet encoded in the weights of an LLM. You communicate well, exercise ownership over your responsibilities and your decisions, and move fast in the most competitive market that has ever existed.\nYour job is not to sit in isolation, as an artisan meticulously crafting lines of code to satisfy a JIRA ticket. It's to have impact through software creation, participating in engineering, technical, and architecture implementation and review, while working closely with your human and AI coworkers to ship software products that satisfy real user needs.\nWe are looking for generalist polymaths who have seen the failings of traditional technologies, ways of working, and organizational bureaucracy.\nOn a given day or week, you might:\nPrototype a new multimodal agent interaction\nReview a pile of PRs that your coworkers, both human and AI, have produced, checking for gotchas, product direction, alignment, and architectural concerns. You don't trust AI code outright. You internalize it, think about it, and understand its implications and tradeoffs. \nDevelop a new synthetic data generation mechanism to support evals of Kinelo's memory and inference system\nDebate whether visual UI is even needed in software anymore\nDiagnose scaling problems with a Kinelo data ingestion system\nPrepare a presentation for a conference where you'll discuss Kinelo's temporal inference system and its benchmarks \nWe're looking for candidates who are:\nAware of the current state of the art in agentic coding and the principles and techniques that underlie it, as well as where the problems and opportunities lie\nExperienced and can tell battle stories of failings in system design and software architecture, so that they can keep an eye out and prevent such problems in the future\nAll about getting the job done, wearing many hats and abandoning convention where necessary\nExtraordinarily comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty. We are an early-stage startup still navigating product-market fit. It's your job to have input and embrace that uncertainty as opportunity.\nGenerally, this will translate to:\nAt least six years in a professional software development capacity\nKnowledge of several programming languages, including at least one that is statically typed\nKnowledge of fundamental computer science principles\nExperience with databases, data ingestion, containerization, and other basics of scalable and reliable software\nOur tech stack currently includes TypeScript running in a managed container service backed by Postgres, Redis, and some other systems. But we're adaptive and flexible, and you should be too.\nKinelo is for you if:\nYou maintain high standards while being collaborative and compassionate\nYou enjoy tackling ambiguous, high-leverage problems\nYou think in terms of leverage and impact (“80% value with 20% effort”)\nYou’re excited about redefining how teams and AI work together\nYou view failures as learning accelerants\nYou won’t be happy at Kinelo if:\nYou want slow pace or highly defined problems\nYou bring ego instead of curiosity and ownership\nYou’re uncomfortable competing in a fast-moving, high-expectation environment\nLogistics & Benefits:\nCompetitive salary with meaningful early-stage equity\nFull benefits (health, vision, dental, 401k, parental leave)\nThis position is in person in San Francisco at our office at 2nd and Mission. 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