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AI Platform Engineer, 2027 New Grad

Brain Co.· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area)Full-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Entry-level AI platform engineer role designing and building backend services, data pipelines, and shared platform capabilities to support Brain Co.’s AI products for enterprise and government customers. Full-time, hybrid role for candidates completing a bachelor’s degree in Spring 2027.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend services and data pipelines that power Brain Co.’s AI products. Own scoped projects across implementation, testing, and maintenance, with guidance from experienced engineers.
  • Build tools that accelerate AI product development, including ML experiment tracking, artifact management, and automated training and evaluation pipelines.
  • Help build reliable systems for enterprise and government customers, with attention to testing and handling common failure cases.
  • Design modular, reusable components and clean APIs (REST, gRPC). Use profiling to improve application latency and throughput.
  • Partner with engineering, Product, and ML teams to build shared platform capabilities that remove bottlenecks and reduce the time it takes to ship new AI products.

Qualifications

  • Expect to complete a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field in Spring 2027.
  • Solid foundations in data structures, algorithms, and databases, with familiarity with API design and testing.
  • Comfortable writing and debugging code in at least one language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, Rust, Java, or C++.
  • Built a backend service, API, data-intensive application, or developer tool through an internship, research, coursework, or a personal project.
  • Curious about how systems work under the hood and eager to learn distributed-systems concepts such as consistency, failure handling, retries, and idempotency.
  • Care about building intuitive, well-documented, and maintainable APIs and shared tools for internal ML and product teams.
  • Enjoy breaking down open-ended problems into clear technical designs, reasoning from first principles, and communicating your ideas.
  • Take ownership of your work, care about its quality over time, and actively seek feedback and guidance when needed.

Skills

Required:Bachelor’s degree completion in Spring 2027Data structures, algorithms, and databasesAPI design and testingProgramming languagesBackend service / API / data-intensive projectDistributed systems conceptsAPI usability and maintenanceCommunication and ownership

Benefits

  • Competitive full-time compensation and benefits
  • Support and feedback from experienced platform engineers
  • Opportunity to work on real production systems used globally
  • Meaningful ownership from day one, with room to grow alongside the team
  • Daily lunches (if onsite)
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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