Kineto (kineto.app) is an AI startup backed by JetBrains. We’re building the next creator stack – tools that help creators talk to their audience in new ways, turn ideas into content, and build sustainable businesses – powered by LLMs and agents.
We’re now looking for a Research Engineer with a strong grounding in engineering or ML who wants to turn ideas into shipped products.
How we work
We move fast and iterate. We ship early, measure results, and improve quickly. If something works, we double down. If it doesn’t, we cut it. Delivery and measurement are part of the culture, and everyone owns outcomes end to end.
In this role, you will:
- Ship AI product features that combine engineering and ML.
- Build and improve agent workflows (tooling, retries, guardrails, fallbacks).
- Improve the latency, cost, and reliability of our systems.
- Track what’s new in the AI space (agent teams, methods, tooling) and turn it into shipped products.
- Build self-improving loops: systems that run experiments, learn from feedback and evals, and improve the product over time.
- Have shipped real systems, not just demos or prototypes.
- Have built software with LLMs (structured outputs/function calling, tool use, reliability work).
- Have built agents (multi-step workflows that call tools, keep states, and handle failures).
- Have set up evals to track quality (tests, regression checks, eval harnesses).
- Feel comfortable moving fast, iterating, and owning outcomes end to end.
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We are an equal opportunity employer
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Skills Required
- Strong grounding in engineering or machine learning
- Experience shipping real systems (not just prototypes)
- Built software integrated with LLMs (structured outputs/function calling, tool use, reliability)
- Built agents: multi-step workflows that call tools, maintain state, and handle failures
- Set up evaluations to track quality (tests, regression checks, eval harnesses)
- Comfortable moving fast, iterating, and owning outcomes end-to-end
JetBrains Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JetBrains and has not been reviewed or approved by JetBrains.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Fair & Transparent Compensation: Pay is considered market-competitive for many product and engineering roles in key locations, with published salary ranges on some postings aiding expectation-setting. Feedback suggests total compensation feels fair relative to local markets even if packages are positioned as “competitive but not top‑of‑big‑tech”.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible Benefits: Work setup includes hybrid/remote options and flexible hours across many locations. The ability to work abroad for part of the year adds practical flexibility to where work gets done.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave & Time Off Breadth: Time off includes additional vacation days beyond local minimums in many countries. U.S. materials also highlight PTO, sick leave, and holidays, underscoring breadth beyond statutory baselines.
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What We Do
JetBrains creates intelligent software development tools consistently used and trusted by 11.4 million professionals and 88 Fortune Global Top 100 companies. Our lineup of more than 30 products includes IDEs for most programming languages and technologies, such as IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and others, as well as products for team collaboration, like YouTrack and TeamCity. JetBrains is also known for creating the Kotlin programming language, a cross-platform language used by more than 5 million developers worldwide yearly and recommended by Google as the preferred language for Android development. The company is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, and has offices around the world. JetBrains IDEs * IntelliJ IDEA (Java and Kotlin Developers) * PyCharm (Python developers) * PhpStorm (PHP developers) * GoLand (Go developers) * Rider (.NET developers) * CLion (C and C++ developers) * Rust Rover (Rust developers) * WebStorm (JavaScript & TypesScript developers) * RubyMine (Ruby and Rails developers) * DataGrip (Tool for multiple databases) * ReSharper (Extension for Visual Studio) * Fleet (Multilingual IDE and code editor) * Aqua (IDE for test automation engineers) .NET & Visual Studio: * Rider (IDE for .NET developers) * ReSharper (Extension for Visual Studio) * ReSharper C++ (Visual Studio Extension for C++ developers) * dotCover (.NET Unit Test Runner and Code Coverage Tool) * dotMemory (.NET Memory Profiler) * dotTrace (.NET Performance Profiler) * dotPeek (.NET decompiler and assembly browser) Team Tools: * TeamCity (Powerful CI out of the box) * YouTrack (Project management for all your teams) * Space (Intelligent code collaboration platform) * Datalore (Collaborative data science platform) * Qodana (Code quality platform for teams) Programming Languages: * Kotlin (Programming Language for the JVM and Android) * MPS (Create Your Own Domain-Specific Language) Education: * JetBrains Academy (Learn and Teach Computer Science) Profile by JetBrains s.r.o.
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