Experienced Hires: 7 "Wild Cards" Wanted Worldwide
Kimi is hiring seven "Wild Cards" — people we'll back to become core team partners.
Updated: 2026-09-09
The traditional path rewards being "right": the right school, the right major, doing the right thing at the right age.
But technology is erasing the boundaries between roles. Engineering, product, operations, design, marketing, sales… labels don't always hold.
One person can be an entire team. At Kimi, we call that person a "Wild Card" — someone no job description can define.
You might be
A liberal-arts grad who codes, an art-loving geek, or a product-minded CEO who sets strategy by day and codes by night
A country launcher who has backpacked across countries and seen the world, or an indie developer with a 10k+ star GitHub repo
An interaction designer who sweats every pixel and treats "ugly" as a bug, or a global founder who cut their teeth in Silicon Valley and refuses to be a cog in the big-tech machine
We don't care if
Your traditional path broke somewhere along the way: mediocre grades, pursuits outside your major, a leave of absence or dropping out
You've never had a fixed coordinate: studied abroad alone, moved from country to country, even drifted for years
You've been written off as a failure: serial startups, shut-down companies, but you keep getting back up
You never fit in with your peers: unconventional ideas, obsessive focus — the kind that borders on unreasonable
Interviews aren't your thing: not a talker, not a networker — you let your work speak for itself
As long as you
Are willing to iterate 100 times on an idea
Have used, taken apart, and loved 1,000 products
Have put 10,000 hours into one thing and still want to keep going
You might work on
Exploring next-generation agent products and redefining how people collaborate with AI
Turning model capabilities into intuitive, beautifully crafted interaction experiences — work used directly by users and developers worldwide
Building efficient, stable technical architecture — the engineering foundation that powers our AI products
Launching and leading a country market from 0 to 1 — owning growth, the team, and the results
Building the runtime that turns models into productivity — so the model's ceiling becomes the product's floor
Bringing our open-source technology to customers around the world — closing deals that span time zones, languages, and old conventions, deals that change the landscape
Hiring exceptional talent, going deep to support the business, and upgrading the organization while raising its talent density
What you'll get
Ample compute, dedicated to you
Direct communication with the founding team
Options locked at today's valuation
Campus Recruiting & Internships: The "Crossing Plan"
Campus recruiting is open to the graduating classes of 2027 and 2028; internships are open to current students of any year.
Online Application: The "Crossing Plan" — Business Team Round
The "Crossing Plan" (穿越计划) is Kimi's top talent program — no limits on role or major, no weight given to degrees or tenure. What matters is your ceiling, and the things in you that can't be held down: intelligence, resilience, curiosity, maybe even a touch of contrarian obsession.
Top performers will be granted options, with shares locked at the current option price — and cross every cycle together with the company.
This round focuses on business teams. Campus and internship roles span, but are not limited to: Engineering / Product / Operations / Design / Corporate Functions / Sales / Marketing / International / Management Trainee / Other.
Offline Event: NO GENRE Night Talk
October 24, Beijing. We're inviting selected campus candidates and interns to talk about something that's only just beginning.
After dark, we'll sit down with the Kimi team to talk about the frontiers of technology, what products could become, and your own future.
