Brave Bird AI is hiringFounding Engineer
Mission
We make machines talk to machines so humans can spend their time with other humans.
Today, people spend an enormous amount of time navigating software - portals, voice-bot trees, and systems that were not designed to work together.
We are building agents that handle these machine-to-machine conversations and workflows, freeing people to focus on work that requires a human touch.
Applied first to healthcare operations where humans are drowning in software.
About The Role
We’re building the next generation of agentic AI systems that can reason, act, and operate reliably in messy, real-world environments — across chat, voice, and full computer-use interfaces.
As a Founding Engineer – Platform & Infra, you’ll build the foundation that makes our agents reliable, scalable, secure, and production-ready. You’ll own backend systems, distributed infrastructure, execution reliability, and performance — ensuring our agents can run in high-stakes, enterprise environments with confidence. This role is ideal for someone who loves designing real, hardened systems and wants massive ownership over a platform that powers real-world automation.
What You’ll Do
- Design and build core backend systems and services that power our agent platform
- Architect reliable, distributed infrastructure capable of supporting long-running, high-stakes workflows
- Build agentic execution environments that emphasise correctness, resilience, sandboxing, and observability
- Own infrastructure security, access controls, networking, and data integrity
- Establish Best Practices: Define the standards for our services, testing, tooling and AI integration
- Shape the cutting-edge of engineering: Integrate the latest AI tools and agents into the platform
What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Proven experience shipping production systems that people rely on
- High proficiency in backend development and system design
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and performance
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS strongly preferred)
- Strong grasp of security, networking, and data architecture
- Bias toward robustness, correctness, and pragmatic engineering
Bonus Experience
- Terraform, Kubernetes, or platform engineering experience
- Experience with orchestration frameworks (Temporal / Cadence, etc.)
- Experience building compliant or regulated infrastructure (healthcare a plus)
- Experience with Postgres / DynamoDB or similar production databases
What We Offer
- Founding-level work ownership
- Competitive compensation, with meaningful equity
- The ability to work directly with founders and customers, move fast, and ship real, production-grade systems into high-stakes environments
- We’re based in San Francisco and work best together in person. That said, we’re flexible for exceptional remote candidates and provide visa sponsorship.
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