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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