• 🌆 Location: SF, Cincinnati, or NY
  • đź’° Salary: $150,000 - $200,000 + 1%+ equity
  • ⏳ Years of experience: 2+
  • đź’» Skills: Typescript, Python, SDKs, Developer Relations

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About Kernel

We’re building the developer platform that lets AI agents use real applications, starting with browsers. Our edge is an infrastructure platform that’s extensible, observable, and built for scale from day one. We’ve shipped foundational tech, landed paying customers, and are well-funded while still in stealth.

Our serverless platform handles the hard stuff: autoscaling reliable browser infrastructure, observability, and the messy details of web interaction so developers can focus on what their agents do, not how they do it. Kernel makes AI tangible, practical, and powerful — allowing developers to deploy agents that can truly interact with the digital world.

If you’re interested in building critical infrastructure for the next generation of AI applications, we’d love to chat. One line of code deploys any web agent to our cloud. The rest is up to you.

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About the role

As Kernel’s Founding DevRel Engineer, you’ll be our technical storyteller and community architect. You’ll turn complex infrastructure into “wow” moments through demos that developers can’t help but share. We need someone who speaks developer truth, fosters our enthusiastic community, and builds genuine excitement for what AI agents can actually do in the real world. You’ll also play a foundational role in how we build Kernel’s culture.

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What you’ll do

  • Build demos that make developers think “damn, that’s cool” – things that showcase our platform in ways nobody expected
  • Own our voice on Twitter and Discord – cutting through the AI hype with authentic takes that resonate with builders
  • Ship fast, functional examples that developers can fork and actually use
  • Get our platform into the hands of interesting builders and become their go-to troubleshooter and champion
  • Share raw, unfiltered user feedback with our team to inform what we build next
  • Shape Kernel’s hiring decisions and culture as we grow

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What we’re looking for

  • Creator energy: you’ve built things people actually used or content people actually shared
  • Cultural radar: you can spot an AI trend before it hits the mainstream and understand why it matters
  • Bias for shipping: you’d rather push something interesting today than perfect something nobody sees
  • Low ego, high impact: you care more about building something meaningful than who gets credit
  • Start-up ready: early stage sometimes means figuring it out as we go, and that energizes rather than drains you
  • Excited to crush it: we’re moving fast and looking for people excited about high velocity, high impact work—and having fun along the way.

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What you can expect as a Kernel

  • Industry-competitive salary
  • Above market equity—first 5 hires bookmarked for 12% of company’s equity pool
  • Premium medical + dental coverage + dependent coverage
  • Small, trusting team of senior + staff engineers
  • Default async—minimal bureaucracy, only one meeting a week
  • $1k / mo budget for LLM usage fees #vibecheck
  • Daily lunches on us
  • Unlimited PTO

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Hiring process

We have a simple process focused on real world collaboration and jointly getting to know each other:

  1. 30 minute intro call with Catherine, Kernel’s co-founder
  2. Paid work trial (2-3 days if full-time, 1-2 weeks if part-time work trial). You’ll work directly with our team to ship a real feature, join our team meeting, and see exactly how we work effectively.
  3. Offer!

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How to apply

Message @catherine jue on Discord and include:

  1. Your resumé
  2. Past projects, work, and GitHub

We can’t wait to hear from you!