BrainCo
AI Platform Engineer, Backend
About this role
Brain Co. is seeking a Backend Engineer to build production-grade infrastructure powering their AI platform for enterprise and government clients. You'll own systems end-to-end—from architecture to deployment—solving complex technical challenges while working with world-class teams from Tesla, DeepMind, and similar organizations.
What you'll do
- Design and implement modular, scalable backend architectures and APIs (REST, gRPC, event-driven) for enterprise and government environments
- Own full lifecycle of systems including architecture, implementation, deployment, and long-term maintenance
- Break down open-ended problems from first principles and ship production-ready solutions with speed and rigor
- Optimize system performance through profiling and iterative improvements in latency, throughput, and cost efficiency
- Partner with Product, ML, Infrastructure, and customer-facing teams to build reliable, developer-friendly systems
- Manage operational excellence including observability, incident response, and uptime responsibility
What they're looking for
- Distributed systems fundamentals (consistency, availability, failure modes, retries, idempotency)
- Production backend development in Go, TypeScript, Rust, Python, or similar languages
- API design and service architecture at scale
- Observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing) and incident response
- Kubernetes and cloud-native deployment
- AI/ML platforms or inference systems
- Multi-tenant and regulated environment experience
- Real-time or streaming data systems
Benefits
- Competitive salary plus equity in high-growth company
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Daily lunches and commuter benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Career acceleration based on impact and ownership
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BrainCo
BrainCo builds and deploys cutting-edge AI and language model solutions for governments, healthcare systems, and critical infrastructure organizations. The company is hiring AI/ML engineers, backend platform engineers, AI platform engineers, and sales engineers to develop scalable infrastructure, production AI systems, and secure government contracts.
View all jobs at BrainCoLikely interview questions
- Tell us about a production system you've owned end-to-end. How did you approach reliability, and what was the most critical incident you dealt with?
- Describe your experience designing APIs (REST, gRPC, or event-driven). How do you think about backwards compatibility and developer experience when evolving them?