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At Kuro, you can tackle some of the hardest problems in applied AI every day\n\nCurious about the bigger engineering challenge? Explore the vision and open problems at kuro.build.\n\nAbout us\nLea andJonas scaled two of Europe's leading construction tech companies - Capmo and alcemy - and saw firsthand the challenges holding the industry back. Now they're tackling the root cause: the 50% of construction work still lost to manual data handling.\nKuro is building the AI foundation for construction. We're reimagining how construction professionals get work done and make decisions by leveraging AI to augment back-office workflows and make core data accessible. We are not pursuing marginal improvements, but a step change for construction.\nAfter one year on the market, leading construction enterprises with a combined annual construction volume of >€40 billion use Kuro every day to automate workflows and make faster, better decisions. Backed by an €8 million seed round, we already process more than 1 million pages every month and expect that volume to grow 10x over the next six months.\nWe are 15 people based in Berlin. You will join a group of technical ex-founders and builders who are ambitious and kind.\nLearn more:Join Kuro - Berlin\nWhat You'll Do\n Build and own end-to-end (AI) features\nDesign and implement new features to solve a specific user problem, such as document versioning or our agentic Chat.\n\nFrom concept to DB schema, to optimizing LLMs, to UI. Own the full development lifecycle of customer-facing features.\n\nManage evaluations and scoring, and perform error analysis on new and shipped AI features.\n\nBuild the platform that abstracts workflow building\nContribute to the workflow harness, decision-trace standard, and eval tooling so a new use case ships in ~1 month\n\nBuild reusable human review & approval surfaces where trust in AI output is earned\n\nWork on the construction ontology & project graph\nHelp model and evolve canonical entities of our customers\n\nContribute to entity resolution across sources: recognizing the same requirement, position, or price across BoQs, contracts, drawings, and bids\n\nBuild features so answers are evidence-linked and auditable, and decisions flow back into the graph\n\n Contribute to scalable data pipelines & integrations\nExtend our multi-modal ingestion of unstructured documents - PDFs, scans, drawings, and 3D models - orchestrated and cost-efficient at scale\n\nBuild read/write integrations with customer systems (document management, ERP/AVA), so workflows complete work end-to-end\n\nProjects you would be involved in\nCurrent & Past projects\nProject & document versioning guaranteeing data lineage in construction projects\n\nGerman tokenizer for construction-specific search\n\nDocument pipeline ingesting 10,000s of PDFs per day\n\nNative BIM/DWG file support: ingesting and processing 3D models\n\nDesign the ontology v1 + graph schema: core construction entities, evidence links, and per-customer extension model\n\nBuild out our workflow harness to run agentic workflows for customers\n\nCurrent Tech Stack\nIt is still day 0 for Kuro. Therefore, we are highly pragmatic with our tool choices. We believe in keeping it simple and moving quickly. You significantly help shape our tech stack decisions.\nWeb-App: Typescript\n\nDatabase / Vector DB and File Storage: AWS RDS / Trubopuffer / AWS S3\n\nBackend: Fastify API + Prisma ORM\n\nWorkflow Orchestrator: Prefect (Python)\n\nHosting: AWS Elastic Beanstalk\n\nAI: Azure / OpenAI, Gemini, Cohere, AWS\n\nObsv., Eval. & Tracking: Langfuse, Datadog\n\nYour profile\nThis is the perfect role for an experienced engineer who wants to join an early stage company that builds a high impact applied AI product\nBring 3+ years of experience as a (full-stack) software engineer in a fast-paced environment\n\nHave proven experience delivering production-grade applied AI features to customers\n\nTake full ownership of solving customer problems by designing and implementing AI features\n\nThrive in a small, accountable team with a high degree of ownership and a drive to make an impact\n\nCommunicate fluently in both spoken and written English\n\nEnjoy working onsite with the team at our office in Factory Berlin Mitte every day\n\nBonus Points\nYou’ve started a company before or worked at a very early stage startup\n\nYou built side projects in the past - we’re excited to hear about these!\n\nGerman-speaking (definitely not a must, we’re fully international)\n\nWhy Kuro\nYou’ll join at a point when customer demand is proven, but our product and platform are still yours to shape. You’ll own customer-facing features end to end while building the foundations beneath them, from ingestion pipelines and workflow infrastructure to our construction ontology and project graph.\nExplore the technical vision behind Kuro, from processing more than one million construction pages a month to entity resolution, evidence-linked answers and 3D project graphs. Explore Kuro Engineering →\nAs Kuro grows, you can grow with it, whether as a leading individual contributor, technical leader or people manager.\nThe Process\nTalent Acquisition Call - Intro, motivation, logistics & fit (30 min)\n\nImpact Interview - Deep dive into your experience, ownership & impact (60 min)\n\nOn-site Day\nSystem Design - Designing under ambiguity & LLM craft (60 min)\n\nAI-Native Coding - Hands-on coding with AI (45 min)\n\nFinal Culture Interview (approx. 45 min)\n\nReference calls\n\nDecision","description_format":"text","description_chars":5756,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"German","level":"All levels","optional":false},{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-12T17:29:22Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.221,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":74,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-04T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":159859,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/kuro-software-engineer-ai","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/kuro-software-engineer-ai.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-05T01:57:19Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2558,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2442,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-06T00:00:00Z"}}}