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title: 'App Engineer at Kled AI'
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# App Engineer at Kled AI

- **Company:** Kled AI
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $150k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-02-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kled-ai/7a6a3479-9f1b-4d77-a3e1-f820c09004ca

## Job description

## ABOUT KLED

Kled is building the largest opt-in human data network in the world.

We are not a labeling firm. We are not a task marketplace.

We are a consumer application where people upload their real photos, videos, and documents and get paid continuously.

We then filter, standardize, and license that data to frontier AI labs and enterprises that need fresh, rights-aware training data.

Since launching our mobile app in 2026, we have:

- Reached #1 on the App Store (Finance) with 0 paid marketing
- Scaled to 200,000+ active data contributors
- Processed 1.5–3M uploads per day
- Raised $5M+ from investors behind SpaceX, Airbnb, Coinbase, xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Spotify, Lyft, Uber, and more

Our mission is to let anyone download the app and earn a real living wage from uploading their data.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

iOS Engineer - Consumer App

Our entire network starts on the phone.

You’ll help build the mobile experience that powers one of the largest human data collection efforts ever created.

You will:

- Design and ship core upload flows (photo, video, document ingestion)
- Build high-performance media handling systems
- Optimize upload speed, compression, and background processing
- Implement fraud detection hooks and verification UX
- Build incentive systems, payout visibility, and contributor dashboards
- Improve retention, engagement, and contributor lifetime value
- Work directly with backend + ML teams to ship full-stack features

## WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- 3+ years iOS development experience
- Strong Swift / SwiftUI experience
- Experience shipping consumer apps at scale
- Deep understanding of performance optimization (media-heavy apps preferred)
- Experience with background tasks, file handling, and networking
- Strong product intuition

Bonus:

- Experience with growth loops or marketplace products
- Experience building creator tools
- Experience with Flutter (we are migrating parts of the stack)
- Experience working closely with ML or backend teams

## CURRENT STACK

Frontend

- SwiftUI (primary)
- Migrating parts to Flutter

Backend

- PostgreSQL (Supabase)
- S3 storage
- Deno / TypeScript edge functions
- Python ML pipelines

## COMPENSATION

- Base salary: $150,000 - $250,000
- $150,000 – $350,000 equity

We move fast and work hard. If you're excited to build the world’s largest consumer app, let’s talk!

## GROWTH OPPORTUNITY

You’ll join a team operating at the frontier of applied AI data infrastructure.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:

- Own core systems that power one of the largest human data networks in the world
- Design infrastructure that directly influences what data trains next-generation AI models
- Build at real scale - millions of uploads per day, adversarial environments, global contributors
- Ship alongside a team that has built marketplaces, AI systems, and products used by millions

If you’re excited to move fast, build systems that matter, and help define how human data powers frontier AI, let’s talk.

## About Kled AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kled AI operates a human data marketplace where individuals upload and license their personal data (photos, videos, text) to AI companies, governments, and research institutions in exchange for payment.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Avi Patel (Founder and CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI Data Marketplace, Internet Marketplace Platforms
- **Target customers**: AI labs, robotics companies, self-driving car companies, hedge funds, consumer brands, and governments (B2B); individual data contributors worldwide (B2C)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To flip the current data economy — instead of companies taking your data for free, people should be able to make money from it.

## Products & Services
- **Kled App**: A mobile application (iOS) that allows users to upload personal data — photos, videos, text — and get paid for it. The app assigns specific tasks (e.g., "film yourself taking out the trash" for robotics training, "take a photo of a pothole" for mapping) to ensure high-quality, structured datasets.
- **Human Data Marketplace**: A platform where AI companies, governments, and research institutions can license large-scale, consented, high-quality datasets sourced from verified contributors. Covers video, text, sound, and more.
- **FD 0.1**: A large-scale fraud detection system (launched June 2026) built to automate AI dataset quality and safety checks, ensuring uploaded data matches requested tasks and preventing fake or low-quality contributions.
- **Multilingual Voice Uploads**: Introduced in April 2026, enabling users to contribute speech data for training next-generation AI voice models.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $150 million (as of March 2026, per Business Insider)
- **Total Funding**: $9M (per Tracxn) across multiple rounds, including a $5.5M Seed round (March 2026) and a $6.5M round at a $150M valuation.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sebastian Thrun (Founder of Waymo), Aglaé (Venture Fund of Bernard Arnault), K5 Global, Diplo, Parable VC, Cox Exponential, Wischoff VC, LazarBeam (23M subscribers on YouTube), Solana Foundation, Vanta (compliance partner), Workstreet (compliance partner).
- **Growth Signals**: Crossed 1 billion total uploads in April 2026; on track for 5 billion uploads. Over 200,000 users within two months of launch. Hit #1 on the App Store in Malaysia. 5 million uploads per day. Top users earning up to $7,400 per month.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Opt-in, consented data**: Unlike most companies that scrape data without permission, Kled AI collects data voluntarily from users who are paid, providing a legally clean and ethically defensible data source for AI training.
- **Task-based data collection**: By assigning specific tasks (e.g., "take a video of yourself taking out the trash"), Kled AI produces structured, high-quality datasets that are far more valuable than random scraped data.
- **Fraud detection infrastructure**: The FD 0.1 system and partnerships with Vanta/Workstreet ensure data quality and enterprise-grade compliance, building trust with large AI labs.
- **Global reach with fair pay**: Pays the same rates globally, making the platform especially attractive in developing countries where $20–$40/month is significant, creating a large, diverse contributor base.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the data marketplace**: Rapidly expanding the number of users and daily uploads, targeting billions of structured datasets.
- **Building fraud-detection systems**: Investing in automated quality and safety checks to maintain dataset integrity as the platform scales.
- **Expanding data types**: Moving beyond images and video into voice data and other modalities to serve a broader range of AI models.
- **Enterprise compliance**: Partnering with Vanta and Workstreet to implement enterprise-grade compliance infrastructure for trusted AI data licensing at scale.

## Why Work Here
- **High-growth startup**: A team of 7–11 people (as of mid-2026) with a $150M valuation and massive traction (1B+ uploads, 5M daily uploads). Opportunity to have outsized impact in a fast-moving company.
- **Mission-driven**: Working to create a fair data economy where individuals are compensated for their data, flipping the current model of free scraping.
- **Founder-led**: Founded by Avi Patel, a 22-year-old college dropout who previously ran a music licensing startup and pivoted to Kled AI. High energy and ambitious vision.
- **Location**: Headquarters in San Francisco, California, with presence in Germany.
- **Culture**: Small, lean team with a focus on building infrastructure for the AI data economy. Emphasis on engineering, product, and growth.
- **Notable perks**: Early-stage equity in a rapidly scaling company; opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI data infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [kled.ai](https://www.kled.ai/)
2. [LinkedIn - Kled AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kled-ai)
3. [Business Insider - Avi Patel's Kled AI Pays for Data, Raises $7 Million Funding](https://www.businessinsider.com/avi-patel-kled-ai-pays-for-data-7-million-funding-2026-3)
4. [Tracxn - Kled Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/kled/__ONHbKgA-8N1PR7T_OT31f4N1JICLkMqkXn9hP-_f2c8)
5. [Ashby - Kled AI Jobs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kled-ai)

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