AI Engineer/FDE/Data Scientist

Kiln AI is a well funded AI startup in Toronto. Founded by an ex-Apple AI team, we’re building the workbench for AI teams including evals, auto-research, fine-tuning, RAG, skills, agentic optimization, and much more. Learn more at kiln.tech

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Work closely with the founding team: senior ex-Apple AI
• Work with Kiln customers and users, building modern AI systems
• Work with new AI technology and models as soon as it comes out

What successful candidates should have:

• Be able to code with and without AI: we’re highly agentic, but expect the humans to bring critical thinking and experience.
• Have experience building agentic systems or ML systems: some past projects in AI and/or data-science.
• Willing to wear many hats. The role will mix FDE (forward deployed engineering), open-source AI development, closed-source development, analysis, writing technical content, and more. It’s a great role for someone who wants to move fast, be flexible, get lots of experience.
• An education in software engineering, computer science, or similar.
• Level: 0-5 years of experience in tech. We’re looking for the right candidate and are flexible on level of experience.
• Compensation: will reflect the candidate's seniority/level, but competitive and opportunity for stock options if joining as employee.

The Role:

• Format: Contract or full-time. We are open to both options.
• Location: Work from home. Need to be based in GTA (Greater Toronto Area) for occasional customer/team meetings in Toronto. Needs Canadian work authorization.
• Travel: quarterly offsite meeting with team. Past locations have been Cancun Mexico and Montreal. May require travel to conferences in the future (<5 times/yr).

Applying:

• Resumes are fine, but a short note about why you think you’re a fit goes a long way toward standing out.
• Apply to apply@kiln.tech or via this platform

Learn about Kiln:

• Homepage
• Github