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The finance teams processing that capital can't keep up. 800-page invoices, thousand-page contracts, landing every few weeks, often on weekends. The world can't hire specialized accountants fast enough.\nKos is the world's first virtual finance employee for america’s industrial revival. We're processing invoices for some of the fastest-growing infrastructure and defense companies in America. Backed by $12M from 8VC, XYZ, and MVP with industry-leaders as shareholders (Keith Taylor [ex-CFO Equinix], Heather Paduck [CFO STACK], Matt DeNezza [ex-CFO Crusoe], Sachin Katti [Industrial Compute OpenAI]).\nMedia: The Information covering our launch\n\nThe Role\nYou'll own the systems that make a virtual employee a real thing in an org chart. Not a chatbot. Not an app. An identity with permissions, a laptop, and an inbox. Every customer deployment starts with your work.\nWhat you'll do:\nBuild the platform that gives a single Kos a unified presence across email, Teams, Slack, Zoom, and phone\n\nBuild the identity, RBAC, and audit-log layer that gives Kos its own permissions in a customer's org. It has to stand up to enterprise security review.\n\nDesign integrations with customer systems. NetSuite and similar ERPs, SharePoint, Google Drive, and whatever accounting tools a customer runs.\n\nOwn deployment, observability, and on-call for the production platform as customer count grows\n\nHarden the platform so applied engineering can stand up a new customer in days, not weeks\n\nSet the hiring bar and culture for Kos.ai\n\nYou\nStrong fundamentals: Bachelors / Masters / PhD in CS/EE from top-tier universities, 2+ years of experience\n\nYou've shipped production systems and you've been on-call for them.\n\nDeep experience with at least one of: enterprise identity and RBAC, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace integrations, ERP connectivity (NetSuite, or similar enterprise ERPs like SAP or Oracle), multi-channel messaging infrastructure\n\nYou bias toward shippable, observable systems over research prototypes. 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