# Founding AI Engineer at Kinro

- Company: Kinro (YC P26)
- What the company does: Autonomous insurance brokerage for small businesses. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.kinro.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kinro/jobs/X7aZfFB-founding-ai-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/kinro-founding-ai-engineer/

## About the role

You will help define how Kinro builds software in the age of agents. This is a hands-on role for someone who has built AI products end-to-end, trusts agentic coding as a force multiplier, and can ship across product, backend, evals, and infrastructure with strong systems judgment.

## What they're looking for

- You have built AI products, agent workflows, or LLM systems end-to-end in production
- You know when to trust an agent, when to intervene, and how to structure work so the agent succeeds
- You understand tool calling, latency, reliability, security, and cost tradeoffs in agentic systems
- You can reason across the stack: application code, APIs, databases, cloud systems, and operational tooling
- You have strong product taste and care whether something feels simple, fast, and reliable for the end user

Tags: Engineering