8 months ago
Cincinnati, OH, USA +3 moreSenior
Base Salary
$175k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own customer outcomes and product metrics.
- Implement user-facing full-stack features across Kernel’s core product and new product lines.
- Shape the product roadmap using customer feedback, usage patterns, and product judgment.
- Improve developer experience across the SDK, documentation, CLI, and API.
- Ship and iterate quickly from prototype through production with minimal hand-holding.
- Help define and build a high-quality developer product at Kernel.
Requirements
- Demonstrated focus on customer outcomes, customer empathy, and meaningful metrics.
- Ability to own features end-to-end across frontend and backend.
- Strong product taste and judgment for developer tools.
- Startup experience, including shipping quickly and working across multiple responsibilities.
- Experience building for developers deploying agents in the real world.
- Strong opinions and shipped work related to developer experience and API design.
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and above-market equity.
- Premium medical and dental coverage, including dependent coverage.
- Small, trusting team of senior and staff engineers.
- Default async work with minimal bureaucracy and two meetings per week.
- $1,000 per month budget for LLM usage fees.
- Daily lunches provided.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Relocation assistance.
- Hiring process includes a 30-minute founder call, a 45-minute virtual technical interview, and a half-day virtual or in-person onsite.
Categories
Product Engineering
About Kernel
Kernel develops noninvasive neuroimaging hardware and software that measure brain activity for research, clinical studies, and human performance applications. Its flagship product, Kernel Flow, is a wearable time-domain fNIRS system that enables real-time, high-density cortical measurements and cloud-based data analysis. Founded in 2016 by Bryan Johnson and headquartered in Culver City, California, Kernel partners with labs and organizations that need scalable, participant-friendly brain data collection.