AI Platform Engineer, Backend

Brain Co. is an applied AI startup focused on delivering impactful AI applications for critical industries. The AI Platform Engineer role involves owning the systems that power the AI platform, from architecture to maintenance, ensuring reliable infrastructure for enterprise and government environments.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Partner closely with Product, ML, Infrastructure, and customer-facing teams, building systems that are intuitive, reliable, and developer-friendly