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.
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.
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.
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
Competitive salary plus equity
Daily lunches
Commuter benefits
Unlimited PTO
Skills Required
- 5+ years building large-scale backend or infrastructure systems
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Terraform
- Knowledge of cloud networking and orchestration
- Experience with observability tools: metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, SLOs
- Strong distributed systems, performance, and incident-response experience
- Experience supporting high-performance inference and data pipelines
- Ability to work with customers and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable solutions
- Experience setting engineering standards and mentoring engineers
- Comfort with ambiguity, autonomy, and solving hard infrastructure problems
What We Do
We're building an AI platform and applications for the world's most important institutions. Learn more at https://brain.co/
