AI Platform Engineer, Backend

Brain Co. is an applied AI startup co-founded by Jared Kushner and Elad Gil, focusing on building AI applications for significant institutions. As a Backend Engineer, you will own the systems powering the AI platform, from architecture to deployment, ensuring reliability and performance in 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