Founding Engineer - Applied AI Infra

Bravebird

Mission (KS)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Founding-level ownership

Competitive compensation

Direct access to founders

Job summary

Bravebird is looking for a Founding Engineer (Applied AI Infra) in Mission, Kansas. You will be responsible for designing and building robust backend systems for AI agents, ensuring high performance and reliability. The role requires at least 5 years of software engineering experience, with expertise in networking and security. Bravebird offers competitive compensation, significant equity, and a chance to shape foundational technology in high-stakes environments. Visa sponsorship is available for exceptional candidates.

Qualifications

5+ years of software engineering experience with production systems.
Expertise in architecting for reliability and performance.
Experience in HIPAA, SOC2, or similar environments.

Responsibilities

Design and build core backend systems for agentic workflows.
Establish observability and disaster recovery frameworks.
Build secure execution sandboxes for agent iterations.
Own infrastructure security in a HIPAA-compliant environment.

Skills

Software engineering

System architecture

Networking

IAM

Data encryption

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Temporal

Job description

Mission

If you ask a hospital today how much a treatment will cost, the answer is usually: “We don’t know.”

Not because providers don’t want to tell you but because patient cost is computed across insurance plans, negotiated rates, and billing rules that are fragmented, opaque, and not designed for real-time transparency.

What should be a simple question requires navigating a web of systems that don’t talk to each other.

So humans do that work instead.

They log into portals, call payers, follow decision trees, and manually stitch together answers across disconnected systems. Even when providers want to give a clear answer, the system makes it nearly impossible.

At Bravebird, we’re changing that.

We’re building agents that do the work between systems - end to end.

We believe the future of work is machines talking to machines, handling fragmented, system-to-system workflows so humans can focus on decisions, judgment, and care.

About The Role

We’re building 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 (Applied AI Infra), you will build the backbone that makes our agents reliable, scalable, and production-ready.

This is a deeply technical, high-ownership role. You’ll work directly with founders, shape the technical direction, and ship systems that are used in real-world, high-stakes environments.

What You’ll Do

Design and build core backend systems capable of supporting long-running agentic workflows with high correctness and uptime.
Establish the observability, disaster recovery, and automated testing frameworks necessary to maintain mission-critical reliability for agents operating in high-stakes environments.
Build scalable and secure execution sandboxes that allow for rapid agent iteration while ensuring model reasoning remains grounded, private, and audit-ready
Own infrastructure security and data integrity by architecting a "zero-leak," HIPAA-compliant environment with robust IAM, secrets rotation, and strict data residency.

What You’ll Bring

5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems that people rely on.
Deep expertise in architecting for reliability and performance. You understand how to manage state and consistency in the non-deterministic world of agentic workflows.
Deep knowledge of networking, IAM, and data encryption.
Proven experience building or auditing systems for HIPAA, SOC2, or similar regulated environments.

Bonus Experience