Kiln AI, a well-funded Toronto AI startup founded by ex-Apple engineers, is hiring an AI Engineer/FDE/Data Scientist to build agentic AI systems and work directly with customers on its AI workbench (evals, fine-tuning, RAG). Remote work-from-home within the GTA; contract or full-time; Canadian work authorization required.
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 team
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.