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Kay.ai

Founding Engineer (applied Ai)

Company: Kay.ai

Location: New York, NY

Posted on: May 28

Why Kay.ai

Were Building AI Co-workers That Eliminate Repetitive Data Entry In Insurance Operations. Right Now, Were Riding The Wave Of Rapid Growth And Scaling Our Team Fast. Heres Why You Should Join Us

  • Pushing frontier tech everyday: Were solving some of the hardest challenges in LLM reliability, browser automation, and adaptive workflows.
  • Right Market Opportunity: The need for automation has never been more urgent in insurance (40% workforce bogged down in admin task, 400K worker shortage expected by 2026)
  • Demand Outpacing Supply: 120% MRR growth, strong word-of-mouth, saving >100/hr/mo and the right market positioning mean were growing faster than we can handle.
  • World-class team and advisors: Our team includes machine learning experts and insurance operators from Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, AmWINS, Insureon, and IITs. Weve also assembled a top-tier panel of insurtech founders and insurance executives as advisors.
  • Strategic investors: Weve raised our seed round from investors with deep expertise in AI and insurance, incl. Wing VC, South Park Commons, and 101 Weston Labs

About You

  • Shipped products that leverage LLMs in production environments with real usage.
  • Loves to keep up to date with new models/benchmarks/LLM techniques
  • Foundational understanding of how transformers work, how to build strong eval pipelines
  • 2+ years of experience with backend, data, and infra with strong proficiency in Python
  • Thrive in ambiguous environments, have high ownership and are not afraid to challenge the status quo
  • Hands-on experience with browser automation tools like Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium and understand the nuances of reliable web automation. (nice to have)
  • Experience flexing into MLOps, ML research (nice to have)

What You'll Build

  • Browser Automation with AI Agents that classify web pages, extract information, and navigate complex insurance portals
  • Reliable, flexible agent skills that solve real-world automation challengeslike searching across sources for missing information or making decisions based on document context.
  • Design robust prompting systems, fine-tune models, and build evaluation frameworks to ensure deterministic results from inherently probabilistic systems.
  • Build and optimize cloud infrastructure that scales to handle thousands of concurrent automation workflows across different carriers and document types.
  • Develop modules that seamlessly connect with client systems and third-party tools via both APIs and browser automation when APIs aren't available.
  • Work directly with in-house insurance professionals and early users to identify pain points, prototype solutions, and ship high-impact features.

Compensation, Benefits, And Perks

  • Competitive salary and generous equity
  • 100% coverage health, vision, and dental insurance; 20% coverage for dependents
  • Beautiful NYC office space right off the Domino Park in Wburg
  • Very Visa friendly

If this isnt the right role for you

Please take a moment to reflect on the 1 or 2 most brilliant collaborators youve ever worked with and consider whether this might be a fit for them. We offer $10K for a successful referral. You can also let us know what youre looking for in your next role and we can try to connect you to other companies who might be relevantwere close with a wide network of frontier AI startup founders.