AI Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

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. What You’ll Work On: Design and scale Kubernetes- and Terraform-based infrastructure across customer environments. Define standards for networking, security, CI/CD, and multi-region deployments. Build and maintain metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and SLOs. Diagnose and improve performance across distributed systems and AI workloads. Support high-performance inference, data pipelines, and large-scale backend services. Ensure systems scale reliably under fast-growing and unpredictable workloads. Partner with technical leaders on architecture and mentor engineers. You Might Be a Great Fit If You… Have 5+ years building large-scale backend or infra systems. Know Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud networking, orchestration, and observability tools. Bring strong distributed systems, performance, and incident-response experience Work well with customers and teams to deliver reliable solutions. Thrive in high-agency environments and set engineering standards. Enjoy ambiguity, autonomy, and solving tough infra problems. Why Join Us Ship quickly, iterate constantly and see your work deployed at global scale Collaborate with industry veterans from Tesla, DeepMind, Databricks, and more Accelerate your career with ownership based on impact, not tenure Earn competitive compensation + meaningful equity in a high-growth company Thrive in a culture built on speed, curiosity, and impact Benefits Competitive salary plus equity Daily lunches Commuter benefits 401(k) Medical, Dental and Vision Unlimited PTO