Brainco

Brainco

AI Platform Engineer, Backend

San Francisco Bay Area

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 267 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoRustDistributed SystemsDatabricksKubernetesPlatform EngineeringRESTgRPCMachine LearningPatient Care

About the role

  • The work is meaningful: you'll be turning cutting-edge AI into systems that some of the world's most important organizations can actually depend on.

Responsibilities

  • As a Backend Engineer at Brain Co., you'll own the systems that power our AI platform end-to-end, from architecture and design to deployment and maintenance.
  • You'll build reliable, production-grade infrastructure for enterprise and government environments, solve complex problems from first principles, and work closely with teams across Product, ML, and Infrastructure.
  • Own it end-to-end: architecture, implementation, deployment, and long-term maintenance.
  • Build for real environments, design modular, reusable APIs (REST, gRPC, event-driven) and backend architectures that meet enterprise and government uptime expectations.
  • Think in first principles, break down complex, open-ended problems into clear technical designs and ship production-ready systems with speed and rigor.
  • Optimize continuously, improve latency, throughput, and cost efficiency through profiling, thoughtful system design, and iteration.
  • Collaborate with industry veterans from Tesla, DeepMind, Databricks, and more

Requirements

  • Experience with AI/ML platforms, inference systems, or data-intensive pipelines.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native service deployment.
  • Experience with real-time or streaming data systems.

Nice to have

  • 3+ years building production systems with strong fundamentals in distributed systems (consistency, availability, failure modes, retries, idempotency) and deep proficiency in Go, TypeScript, Rust, Python, or similar.
  • Experience owning services with real uptime responsibility, plus familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing) and incident response.
  • Track record designing, operating, and evolving APIs and services at scale.

Compensation

  • Earn competitive compensation + meaningful equity in a high-growth company

Benefits

  • Competitive salary plus equity
  • Commuter benefits
  • Medical, Dental and Vision
  • Earn competitive compensation + meaningful equity in a high-growth company
  • Streamlined hospital patient care across national health systems → 40% better outcomes, 80% less admin work

Company info

  • Raised a $55M Series A from leading investors
  • Built a team of 70+ AI experts from Tesla, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Databricks
  • About Brain Co.
  • Brain Co. is an applied AI startup co-founded by Jared Kushner and Elad Gil, and backed by leading Silicon Valley builders including Patrick Collison and Andrej Karpathy.
  • We are building AI applications for the world's most important institutions, delivering impact on real-world problems across governments, healthcare systems, and critical industries.

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