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# Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform at Kinetic

- **Company:** Kinetic
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $180k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-01
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/kinetic/am9icG9zdDo-56mMeYf5SL272rPvPMpT

## Job description

## About Kinetic

We’re transforming workers’ comp with technology-driven solutions for injury prediction, prevention, and management—helping employers create safer, healthier workplaces.

Our platform is built for labor intensive industries including parcel delivery, manufacturing, and wholesale/warehousing operations. Our tech-driven program speeds up return-to-work and offers generative AI for claims management. Through these and other products and services, we're redefining what workers' comp can do.

We’re a remote-first team headquartered in New York City, growing fast—10x in the past two years—and driven by accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration. If you're excited to build a career with impact, we’d love to meet you.

Kinetic has been named to: Business Insurance's Best Place to Work in Insurance 2025 & 2026.

## About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on our AI Platform team, you'll build and enhance the platform every Kinetic AI agent runs on. We are building agents across the insurance lifecycle, from broker submissions to underwriting to claims. You'll own the orchestration layer, tools, evaluation infrastructure, and guardrails behind every agent. With that platform in place, we can release an agent safely, measure whether it improved a real business result, and quickly undo a change that doesn't work.

This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role. You'll write production code every day, set technical direction for agent infrastructure, and partner with our product and platform development teams as they build on this AI platform. You'll report to our Tech Lead - Data & AI.

## What you'll do

- Build and operate Kinetic's agent orchestration layer: model routing, tools, memory, permissions, and guardrails, kept portable across frameworks and model providers.
- Manage agents like code, with prompts, tools, and model versions shipped through CI/CD, tracked for cost and latency, and easy to roll back.
- Build MCP servers and other tools that give agents secure access to Salesforce, Athena, and claims data, with PHI and PII redaction and full audit logs.
- Build the evaluation harness and rollout gates that test every change against golden datasets before it reaches production.
- Build human-in-the-loop checkpoints for critical decisions that always need a person.
- Replatform or retire the one-off AI scripts and workflows already in use.
- Set standards, review agent designs and code, and mentor engineers building agents across Kinetic.
- Evaluate when to use or not use AI, and when to buy vs. build new systems and components.

## What you bring

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, and 6+ years of software engineering experience.
- 2+ years building LLM-powered systems in production, not just demos.
- Strong Python on serverless (AWS preferred), plus infrastructure as code and CI/CD.
- Hands-on experience building multi-agent systems with CrewAI or other agent frameworks such as LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, or AWS Bedrock AgentCore, including tool calling, structured outputs, RAG, and MCP.
- Built evaluation and observability for LLM systems, such as golden datasets, automated graders, and tracing.
- Clear communicator who can explain probabilistic systems to business partners.

Nice to haves

- Experience at an insurtech, MGA, or carrier, or in another regulated industry such as healthcare or financial services, ideally with workers' compensation, underwriting, or claims workflows.
- Shipped systems that handle sensitive data under HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar requirements.
- Experience with Salesforce, data lakes such as Athena, and multi-model cost optimization.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry or similar tracing for LLM systems.
- Experience in startups or high-growth environments, building from scratch.

## What we offer

- Fully distributed, remote team across all continental US time zones
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 20 vacation days per year
- 9 federal holidays off
- Parental Leave
- Pre-tax 401k contribution
- HSA with compatible health plans
- FREE: Health Advocate
- FREE: Telehealth Membership
- FREE: OneMedical Account

Note Candidates must reside within the US with existing authorization to work in the United States. This role requires domestic travel for company offsites and team alignment. Verification of government-issued identity and employment eligibility will be conducted in person prior to employment.

Security Notice: Kinetic is committed to a secure hiring process. All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive identity and background verification process. We will never ask for financial information or payment during the application process.

## About Kinetic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kinetic is a tech-first Managing General Agent (MGA) that combines AI-driven technology, data analytics, and proactive safety services to reduce workplace injuries and improve the workers' compensation experience for mid-market and large employers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Haytham Elhawary (Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Insurance (Workers' Compensation) / Insurtech
- **Target Customers**: B2B; mid-market and large employers in safety-critical industries (parcel delivery, logistics, manufacturing, warehousing), and the insurance brokers who serve them.
- **Mission**: To create the best workers' compensation experience.

## Products & Services
- **Kinetic Safety Platform**: A tech-driven injury reduction platform combining wearable technology, data analytics, and proactive safety services. It helps employers reduce workplace injuries by up to 60%.
- **Kai (AI Engine)**: Kinetic's proprietary AI engine that eliminates submission portals for brokers. Kai reads ACORD forms and loss runs directly from email submissions, extracts structured data, and flags documentation gaps, creating a "buttery smooth" submission experience. This won "Insurance Placement Technology Innovation of the Year" at the 2026 US Insurance Awards.
- **Workers' Compensation Insurance**: Kinetic operates as a Managing General Agent (MGA) backed by Nationwide, offering specialized workers' comp coverage for safety-critical industries.
- **Claims Management**: AI-driven tools and expert human support that help policyholders take action from injury reporting through claim closure, improving outcomes and controlling costs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Total Funding**: $26.07 million (across 4 known rounds: Seed (2014), Grant (2018), Seed (2018), Series A (2020))
  - **Annual Revenue**: $2 million (estimated)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Nationwide (backing insurer), and 5+ other investors in the Series A round.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of 48 employees, with +20.4% year-over-year growth.
  - Distributed workforce across 5 countries (US, India, South Africa, Mexico, Colombia).
  - Recognized as a finalist/luminary in multiple industry awards in 2025 and 2026 (Business Insurance's Best Places to Work in Insurance, PC360 Insurance Luminaries Finalist, Business Insurance US Insurance Awards Finalist).
  - Won "Insurance Placement Technology Innovation of the Year" in 2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Industry Specialization**: Focuses exclusively on safety-critical industries (parcel delivery, logistics, manufacturing, warehousing), allowing for highly tailored products and risk models.
- **Proprietary AI (Kai)**: Eliminates the friction of traditional insurance submission portals by integrating directly into brokers' existing workflows (email), creating a significant moat in broker distribution.
- **Tech-First MGA Model**: Combines the underwriting authority of an MGA with advanced data science and safety technology, offering a differentiated value proposition over traditional carriers.
- **Proven Outcomes**: Claims ability to reduce workplace injuries by up to 60% provides a strong, data-backed ROI for clients.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product-Led Growth**: Continuing to develop and deploy Kai to capture more broker mindshare and streamline the submission process.
- **Vertical Expansion**: Deepening penetration in existing safety-critical verticals (logistics, manufacturing, warehousing, parcel delivery).
- **Data & AI Leadership**: Investing further in data science and AI to improve underwriting accuracy, claims outcomes, and loss control services.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Growing the distributed team, with a current open role for a People Operations Generalist and a Software Engineer, Data & AI, indicating a focus on scaling both the people function and the core tech platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company has a clear, impactful mission to reduce workplace injuries and improve the workers' comp experience, which is personally meaningful to the co-founder.
- **Remote-First Culture**: Kinetic is a remote-first team with headquarters in New York City. Most employees work remotely across the U.S., offering flexibility.
- **Strong Benefits**: Offers 20 paid vacation days, 9 federal holidays, unlimited sick time, and 12 weeks of supplemental parental leave. Also offers health insurance, 401(K), and job training/conferences.
- **Ownership & Growth**: Offers stock options to all full-time employees, aligning everyone with the company's success. The culture emphasizes "get better every day" through bold experimentation and a growth mindset.
- **Award-Winning Workplace**: Named to Business Insurance’s Best Places to Work in Insurance 2025, signaling a positive internal culture.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Offers diversity-based Employee Resource Groups.

## Sources
1. [kineticcomp.com](https://kineticcomp.com/careers)
2. [kineticcomp.com](https://kineticcomp.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/kinetic-comp)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/kinetic-1)
5. [jobs.gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/kinetic)

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