AI Platform Engineer, Backend
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.
Our progress so far:
- Automated construction permitting for a sovereign government → 80% faster, unlocking $375M+ in value
- Optimized supply chains for a leading global energy company → 30% lower cost, 99% reliability, preventing $100M+ in losses
- Streamlined hospital patient care across national health systems → 40% better outcomes, 80% less admin work
Company momentum:
- Raised a $55M Series A from leading investors
- Built a team of 70+ AI experts from Tesla, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Databricks
At Brain Co., we focus on applying frontier AI to real institutional challenges, working alongside governments, healthcare systems, and critical industries to modernize how essential services operate.
We are looking for leaders who want to help bring new technology into institutions that impact millions of people.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
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. 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.
WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON:
- 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 ...