--- title: 'Senior/ Staff Software Engineer at Kinelo' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-staff-software-engineer-kinelo-san-francisco-7et0ebky8gah' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Senior/ Staff Software Engineer at Kinelo - **Company:** Kinelo - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Posted:** 2026-04-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kinelo/jobs/4205846009 ## Job description ## SENIOR/ STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER At Kinelo, we are rethinking organizational structure, corporate hierarchy, and how people work together with machines. Today, we're building the context layer that connects the tools teams already use into persistent memory that AI agents can reason over and act on. We're heading toward a world where AI coworkers work alongside humans at every level of a new kind of fast-moving, hyperefficient organization, with purpose and responsibilities, not just tasks. We're a small, seed-stage company that just opened an office in San Francisco. We're looking to hire two Product Engineers to collaborate closely with each other and with the AI agents and coworkers that will support them. This is a technical role for software engineers excited to use the leverage that AI allows in producing code to allow focus on higher order technical architecture, product requirements, and user needs. Your job as Product Engineer is to see around the corners in the market, our product, and its technical implementation. You should have immense software wisdom, the kind not yet encoded in the weights of an LLM. You communicate well, exercise ownership over your responsibilities and your decisions, and move fast in the most competitive market that has ever existed. Your job is not to sit in isolation, as an artisan meticulously crafting lines of code to satisfy a JIRA ticket. It's to have impact through software creation, participating in engineering, technical, and architecture implementation and review, while working closely with your human and AI coworkers to ship software products that satisfy real user needs. We are looking for generalist polymaths who have seen the failings of traditional technologies, ways of working, and organizational bureaucracy. On a given day or week, you might: - Prototype a new multimodal agent interaction - Review a pile of PRs that your coworkers, both human and AI, have produced, checking for gotchas, product direction, alignment, and architectural concerns. You don't trust AI code outright. You internalize it, think about it, and understand its implications and tradeoffs. - Develop a new synthetic data generation mechanism to support evals of Kinelo's memory and inference system - Debate whether visual UI is even needed in software anymore - Diagnose scaling problems with a Kinelo data ingestion system - Prepare a presentation for a conference where you'll discuss Kinelo's temporal inference system and its benchmarks We're looking for candidates who are: - Aware of the current state of the art in agentic coding and the principles and techniques that underlie it, as well as where the problems and opportunities lie - Experienced and can tell battle stories of failings in system design and software architecture, so that they can keep an eye out and prevent such problems in the future - All about getting the job done, wearing many hats and abandoning convention where necessary - Extraordinarily comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty. We are an early-stage startup still navigating product-market fit. It's your job to have input and embrace that uncertainty as opportunity. Generally, this will translate to: - At least six years in a professional software development capacity - Knowledge of several programming languages, including at least one that is statically typed - Knowledge of fundamental computer science principles - Experience with databases, data ingestion, containerization, and other basics of scalable and reliable software - Our tech stack currently includes TypeScript running in a managed container service backed by Postgres, Redis, and some other systems. But we're adaptive and flexible, and you should be too. Kinelo is for you if: - You maintain high standards while being collaborative and compassionate - You enjoy tackling ambiguous, high-leverage problems - You think in terms of leverage and impact (“80% value with 20% effort”) - You’re excited about redefining how teams and AI work together - You view failures as learning accelerants You won’t be happy at Kinelo if: - You want slow pace or highly defined problems - You bring ego instead of curiosity and ownership - You’re uncomfortable competing in a fast-moving, high-expectation environment Logistics & Benefits: - Competitive salary with meaningful early-stage equity - Full benefits (health, vision, dental, 401k, parental leave) - This position is in person in San Francisco at our office at 2nd and Mission. Some WHF and remote are okay. ## About Kinelo ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Kinelo provides the operating layer for hybrid teams where humans and AI coworkers share context, coordination, and presence. - **Entity Type**: Private (seed-stage) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI orchestration / Hybrid team management software - **Target customers**: B2B – software product development teams and AI‑native teams (SMB to mid‑market) - **Mission**: Bring AI into the room and make AI a true teammate, not just a tool. ## Products & Services - **Kinelo Platform**: A SaaS management layer that gives AI agents organizational memory, goals, background context, and proactive task assignment. AI coworkers integrate into channels, meetings, and documents and can act autonomously within the team’s workflow. The platform learns about the company, spots tasks, assigns work, and follows through. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly available (seed‑stage, no disclosed round) - **Key Metric**: No customers yet (pre‑revenue); first GTM hire is being made to change that. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed - **Growth Signals**: Very small engineering‑first team (handful of engineers); actively hiring its first non‑engineering hire (Founding GTM Lead); building a new product category; team uses its own product daily to build itself. ## Competitive Advantages - **Organizational memory for AI**: Unlike isolated AI tools, Kinelo gives AI continuous context from standups, Slack threads, tickets, and code changes. - **Proactive orchestration**: AI coworkers are not just reactive – they spot needs and act without being invoked. - **Integration depth**: Works with existing tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, etc.) and brings AI into the same rooms as humans. ## Strategic Focus - **Go‑to‑market**: With no customers yet, the immediate priority is finding product‑market fit and building a playbook for a category that doesn’t have one. - **Product development**: Continue refining the platform by using Kinelo internally as a dogfooding tool. - **Team building**: Expand the human team selectively, starting with a GTM lead and a senior product engineer. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Very small, high‑ownership, high‑expectations team where everyone shapes the product. Values include velocity, ownership, and continuous learning. - **Work environment**: Primarily in‑person at an office at 2nd and Mission, San Francisco. Some remote flexibility allowed. - **Perks**: Competitive salary with meaningful early‑stage equity, full benefits (health, vision, dental, 401k, parental leave). - **Engineering culture**: Engineers use Kinelo to build Kinelo; AI coworkers participate in real product work, code reviews, roadmap decisions. The company believes its own product is an unfair advantage. - **Impact**: Early‑stage opportunity to define a new category and directly influence the company’s direction. ## Sources 1. [kinelo.com](https://www.kinelo.com/) 2. [kinelo.com/jobs](https://www.kinelo.com/jobs) 3. [kinelo.com/about](https://www.kinelo.com/about) 4. [Greenhouse job board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kinelo) 5. [Founding GTM Lead job posting](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kinelo/jobs/4215784009) ## Other roles at Kinelo - [Senior/ Staff Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-staff-software-engineer-healthtech-1-london-y4gmhebxqxt6) — London, United Kingdom