Software Engineer, Korrus Engineering (AI-First) - Contract

Job Description Job Title: Software Engineer, Korrus Engineering (AI-First) - Contract Company: Korrus Location: Los Angeles, CA

• Remote (US, Pacific overlap preferred)

Jobs Employment Type: Full-time, Contract Reports to: VP, Engineering Experience Level: Early career welcome (recent graduates to approx. 3–4 years of experience) About Korrus Discover more engineers Text & Instant Messaging Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Korrus is a lighting technology company with over 500 patents, co-founded by a Nobel laureate who invented the blue LED. Their consumer brand, OIO, delivers biologically aligned light to support wake, focus, and rest cycles. Engineering & Technology Role Overview High-ownership contract software engineering role building a wide range of software across the company using AI-assisted and agentic workflows. The engineer will co-create with the team and AI, take ideas from vague description to working software, and own real problems end-to-end. Key Responsibilities

• Build software across Korrus (internal tools to product surfaces) from idea to working application.
• Co-work with engineering team in AI-assisted and agentic AI workflows.
• Take problems from vague description to working solution independently.
• Partner with users to understand needs and ensure adoption.
• Work across full stack: backends, APIs, SQL, and clean interfaces.
• Help shape AI-first engineering practices.

Requirements

• Solid computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, systems).
• Strong Python skills; comfortable as a generalist across the stack.
• Ability to work from ambiguity without detailed specs.
• Fluency with modern AI coding tools and curiosity to learn more.
• Comfort with messy real-world data and legacy systems.
• Ability to understand non-engineer needs and earn trust.
• Bias to finish, ship, and ensure usage.
• Independent work ability with sound decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Past internships, personal projects, hackathons, or open source work with real users.
• Experience with data pipelines, workflow automation, AWS, business/ERP systems, or mobile.
• Track record of building things on own initiative.

Compensation & Logistics

• Full-time contract, remote (US) with meaningful Pacific time overlap.
• Occasional travel for in-person sessions.
• $8,000 – $9,500 per month (depending on experience).

How to Apply Send resume and 2–3 sentences describing something you built end-to-end (including what was hard), especially using AI tools. Finalists may complete a short paid exercise. Compensation & Benefits Equal opportunity employer: race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical/mental disability, or covered veteran status.