Brain Co.

Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI

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Responsibilities

  • Turn ambiguous customer problems, unlabeled data, and unclear success criteria into well-defined ML problems and shipped production systems.
  • Own AI systems end-to-end, including model training, evaluation, deployment, and production behavior.
  • Build and fine-tune composite AI systems using vision transformers, segmentation models, VLM reasoning, LLMs, agents, and rule engines.
  • Design data, evaluation suites, failure-mode taxonomies, and training loops using verified outcomes from real deployments.
  • Work directly with permit reviewers, underwriters, compliance officers, and other institutional users to improve decision workflows.
  • Engineer for production constraints including accuracy, latency, cost, and reliability.
  • Contribute to design reviews, the internal paper club, and shared practices for trustworthy institutional AI.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of machine-learning fundamentals, including loss functions, generalization, distribution shift, and evaluation.
  • Hands-on experience with modern AI systems, including prompting, fine-tuning, tool use, reasoning, LLMs, and agentic systems.
  • Ability to determine when different approaches, such as fine-tuned models, VLMs, and rule engines, are appropriate and compose them into reliable systems.
  • Ability to work independently on underspecified problems and invent the data, objectives, and evaluation methods needed for success.
  • Ability to own ML systems from research and model development through production deployment and institutional use.

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About Brain Co.

11-50 employees

We're building an AI platform and applications for the world's most important institutions. Learn more at https://brain.co/

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