Why this grade
This listing scored 57/100, which is a C. It lost the most ground on pay transparency.
- Freshness 15 / 15 How recently it was posted. Older postings are likelier to be filled or abandoned.
- Description depth 14 / 20 How much the posting actually says about the work, measured in characters of real text.
- Pay transparency 12 / 25 A published salary range, worth more than any other single factor because it is what a candidate cannot find out without applying.
- Remote clarity 8 / 15 Whether "remote" means anywhere, or is quietly restricted to one country.
- Corroboration 5 / 10 Whether more than one source carries this listing.
- Role specificity 3 / 10 Whether the listing is tagged well enough to tell what the role actually is.
Every figure above is arithmetic over the posting itself — its salary field, its text, its age, its tags and how many sources carry it. How the grades work →
This listing does not state a salary
$163k – $275k
That is the middle half of what comparable roles paid on this board over the last 90 days — 28 listings that did publish a figure, median $178k. It is not this employer's offer, and we have no idea what they pay. It is only what the rest of the market advertised.
hn-hiring
Kaavio builds AI-powered tools that help people buy and sell complex physical products. We work with industrial and science distributors managing massive catalogs (millions of SKUs, each with detailed specs and docs), extracting images, descriptions, and structured data for 10k+ products in days instead of months.
Hiring engineering positions 2 and 3:
Applied AI Engineer: work on research agents, RAG over large catalogs, structured extraction, and the eval work that makes AI trustworthy in production.
Data Engineer / Backend Engineer: work on the data platform, durable workflows, APIs, and infrastructure that keep a data-intensive AI app fast, reliable, and affordable.
$180k–$220k base, 0.25%–0.75% equity, depending on experience
More role info and application instructions here: https://github.com/KaavioAI/jobs
Apply for this role Opens kaavio.ai — the employer's own page, as linked by the source that listed this role
Where this listing came from
- 02 Oct 2026 Hacker News first sighting
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