At Kerno were on a mission to help developers unlock their full potential with AI without compromising the quality and performance of their code. Were building cutting edge IDE agents powered by Graph and Kernel technology that help backend developers catch breaking changes and regressions by autonomously writing running and maintaining exhaustive integration test suites that cover every user flow and edge case.
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Tasks
We are looking for an Applied AI Software Engineer who is excited to push the limits of LLMs agents and developer-facing AI systems. This role is ideal for someone who wants to combine strong software engineering skills with applied machine learning building real systems that developers use every day.
What Youll Do
- Tackle challenging problems including LLM memory multi-language codebase indexing semantic search for large codebases GraphRAG and more.
- Design build test and ship end-to-end features that directly shape developer workflows.
- Gather user feedback and iterate quickly to refine and improve features.
- Stay current with advances in machine learning and AI and bring those insights into our product.
- Monitor evaluate and maintain deployed agents to ensure they deliver lasting value for developers.
- Contribute through code reviews knowledge sharing and setting strong engineering standards.
Requirements
Desired Background
- Hands-on experience with modern GenAI stack (LLMs embeddings RAG vector DBs orchestration frameworks agents).
- Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining ML/AI systems in production.
- Comfortable shipping quickly in fast-paced ambiguous environments where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines
- You have a product-centric mindset that you use to understand business and user needs.
Nice-to-Haves
While not required you may be an especially strong candidate for this role if you have one or more of the following:
- Experience authoring MCP servers prompt libraries or other tooling that supports GenAI for software development.
- Experience working with Kotlin/Java (Our backend is built in Kotlin).
- Experience writing or contributing code to an IDE extension or plugin.
- Experience building tools for developers from within a Platform Developer Productivity or Infrastructure team.
Benefits
Were a small team of highly ambitious engineers that love to solve hard problems ship fast and obsess over our users.
- Backed by top-tier investors
- Remote-first async-friendly culture
- Competitive salary generous equity
- Work from anywhere in Europe.
- Huge ownership huge impact
If youre excited by the idea of working with a deeply technical product-driven team and building a category-defining company wed love to hear from you.