Remote
AI Engineer
About this role
About KidKare The people who care for and feed children every day have enough on their plates. Their software shouldn't add to it. For more than 30 years, KidKare has built technology for the people behind childcare and child nutrition, helping them spend less time on paperwork, compliance, and administrative work and more time focused on the children and communities they serve. Our roots run deep in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), a federal nutrition program that helps provide healthy meals and snacks to children and adults across the country.
Today, we're building on that expertise with a growing ecosystem of software supporting childcare organizations across food program compliance, business management, professional development, and licensing. We have a much bigger vision for what we can do across the childcare community with a strong plan focused on bringing more value to customers through new features, modules, and products. To support these goals, we're looking for an AI Engineer to embed within one of our mature, deeply configurable platforms that has real functional and technical complexity built up over years of customer-driven development.
Position Summary You'll be working inside a legacy codebase with established architecture, business rules, and customer commitments, and your job is twofold: (1) use AI tooling to extend and modernize what these platforms can do, and (2) use that same AI expertise to make our existing engineering teams faster and sharper — compressing the time between a customer requirement and a shipped, correct solution. You will work directly with engineering leads, product, and operators to find where AI-assisted development — code generation, automated testing, requirement-to-implementation acceleration, intelligent tooling — can shorten delivery cycles without sacrificing quality, especially under aggressive customer timelines.
If you enjoy going deep into complex, configurable systems and making both the product and the team around it faster, this role is for you. Your mission: use AI to multiply the output and accuracy of our development teams, while extending the intelligence of the platforms themselves. Primary Responsibilities Accelerate team delivery · Introduce and operationalize AI-assisted development practices (code generation, AI pair-programming, automated test generation) across existing engineering teams.