Jobs at Kaizen Labs

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll develop customer-facing features, ensuring user experiences are intuitive and polished, while collaborating closely with product and design teams.

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Fine-tune, adapt, distill, evaluate, and productionize open-weight language models for code generation, requirements interpretation, repository understanding, structured output, and software validation. Build datasets, training pipelines, evaluations, and experimentation practices while collaborating with platform engineers to address model limitations. The role emphasizes practical model engineering, cost efficiency, reliability, and specialized AI capabilities for public-sector software.

Executive Assistant supporting the CEO and COO with end-to-end travel, scheduling, reservations, vendors, gifts, expenses, reimbursements, office coordination, and communications. The role requires handling urgent logistics, anticipating problems, maintaining discretion, and building repeatable systems through templates, checklists, automations, and shared trackers. The assistant will work closely with founders in a fast-growing, high-growth technology company and travel to Washington, DC a few times per quarter.

Work directly with Kaizen’s founders to manage the CEO’s inbox and calendar, prepare meeting research and briefs, coordinate team decisions, track investor and customer follow-ups, and execute unowned strategic projects. The role requires strong judgment, clear writing, initiative, comfort with shifting priorities, AI-assisted work, frequent travel to Washington, DC, and four days per week in the New York City office.

Owns the Canopy design system and shared Taproot platform, including components, tokens, documentation, guidelines, and accessibility. Designs reusable modules and product surfaces, sets the platform design roadmap, drives adoption across delivery teams, and manages system changes across live products. Partners closely with engineers, contributes front-end code, and determines which requests become scalable patterns versus one-off solutions.

Build and ship full-stack platform features, including AI-powered intake, case routing, constituent assistants, and agency dashboards. Own scoping, architecture, implementation, iteration, reliability, performance, and code quality. Engage directly with federal stakeholders to translate complex requirements into usable products. Work extensively with React, Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AI coding tools in a fast-paced hybrid environment.

Own full-stack features from scoping through launch, build AI-powered product surfaces, improve platform reliability and performance, engage federal stakeholders, set technical direction, uphold code quality, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong React, Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, and Postgres expertise, effective use of AI coding tools, and comfort operating independently in an ambiguous, high-impact environment.

Own full-cycle recruiting for technical and go-to-market roles, including proactive sourcing, market mapping, candidate screening, interviews, hiring-manager partnership, offer negotiation, and closing. Build AI-powered sourcing workflows, engage passive candidates, improve inbound recruiting, and help scale hiring processes. The role is hybrid in New York City or Washington, DC.

Own Kaizen’s full Navy sales cycle and build a repeatable account strategy across systems commands, PEOs, fleet customers, and installations. Develop relationships with Navy program offices and contracting officers, navigate procurement vehicles, conduct software demonstrations, manage proposals, and close complex enterprise deals against quota. The role requires creating a Navy book of business from zero, extensive Navy procurement expertise, and frequent travel to program offices, installations, and industry events.

Own end-to-end software deployments for federal customers, including discovery, scoping, configuration, data migration, integrations, training, go-live, and post-launch support. Translate agency requirements into technical implementation plans, coordinate with engineering, navigate classified or accredited environments, and guide change management. Capture field feedback for Product and Engineering while building repeatable deployment playbooks and documentation.

Owns the full sales cycle across U.S. combatant commands, including prospecting, account planning, demos, proposals, negotiations, and closing. Builds relationships with command leadership and program offices, navigates rapid acquisition pathways such as OTAs and urgent operational needs, and develops a repeatable growth strategy across multiple commands. Requires extensive Department of War and COCOM experience, enterprise sales success, independent software demonstrations, and significant domestic and international travel.

Own end-to-end implementation of Kaizen’s federal software platform, including discovery, configuration, data migration, integrations, training, go-live, and post-launch support. Translate agency requirements into technical workflows, coordinate with engineering within classified data-handling constraints, guide change management, and develop deployment playbooks. The role requires active Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance and regular attendance at the DC office.

Build and ship full-stack government software, including AI-powered product features, Palantir integrations, and reliable platforms serving federal agencies. Responsibilities include technical architecture, end-to-end feature ownership, translating agency requirements, setting engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and operating systems under classified data and compliance constraints.

Owns federal contracts administration and compliance infrastructure across FAR-based awards, DoD agreements, subcontracts, IDIQs, and BPAs. Responsibilities include maintaining obligation registers, managing compliance calendars and federal portals, reviewing flowdowns, onboarding subcontractors, interfacing with government contracting officials, supporting proposals and pricing, assessing terms and conditions, and coordinating clause interpretation with outside counsel.

Build and own AI-powered internal tools from discovery through deployment, rollout, and ongoing improvements. Develop document analysis, agentic workflows, automation, research, routing, and analytics systems that reduce manual work. Partner with teams across the company to identify opportunities, scope solutions, enable employees to use AI effectively, and support customer-facing analytics and implementations.

Lead end-to-end product design for government software, including customer research, requirements, high-fidelity flows, prototypes, and design-system contributions. Partner with engineering on delivery, support customer deployments through project management and communications, prototype for sales and RFPs, help shape product strategy, and create branded marketing assets. The role requires close customer collaboration and comfort working across product, implementation, business development, and leadership teams.

Lead Kaizen’s recruiting function by building scalable processes, pipelines, reporting, and automation; personally close senior and executive hires across GTM, operations, engineering, and design. Manage and grow the recruiting team, oversee agency partnerships, strengthen employer branding in NYC and DC, and partner with founders on headcount planning and talent strategy. The role may expand into broader People operations as the company grows.

Own full-cycle recruiting for federal sales, G&A, and operations roles. Build relationship-driven sourcing pipelines for specialized talent, deliver a white-glove candidate experience, use AI tools throughout recruiting workflows, and partner with hiring managers to define searches. The recruiter will independently establish structure in an ambiguous startup environment, represent Kaizen’s mission, and help build recruiting processes and talent pipelines.

Lead end-to-end federal capture and proposal development: write RFx responses, white papers, solution briefs, and unsolicited proposals; monitor federal opportunities; translate technical work into winning narratives; build AI-assisted proposal workflows; sharpen capture strategy and represent Kaizen at BD activities.