--- title: 'AI Deployment Lead at Brain Co.' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ai-deployment-lead-brain-co-abu-dhabi-dyvjtkbpcb7h' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # AI Deployment Lead at Brain Co. - **Company:** Brain Co. - **Location:** Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-07-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brainco/ce0edfc0-4bf4-4a0c-b852-ee4a1e4e7328 ## Job description ## OUR MISSION Rebuild how the world works, to make institutions work better for the people they serve. ABOUT BRAIN CO. Brain Co. builds AI-native operating systems for large, regulated institutions. Each system is built for a specific industry, powered by agents that push real workflows forward. Underneath it all is Atlas, our proprietary platform that keeps customers in control, secure by design, and never locked into one model. ## WHY NOW Brain Co. is entering its next phase of production deployments on a national scale with an elite team built from Palantir, Google, Meta, and Nvidia, and a growing footprint across government, insurance, health, and financial services. Joining now means shaping both the company and a new category of applied AI. Every project here ships to production and is expected to create measurable customer value and impact. You'll work alongside exceptional peers on some of the hardest problems in applied AI. It’s the kind of work you'll still be proud of in ten years from now. ## ABOUT THE ROLE We’re growing our AI Deployment team in Abu Dhabi and Doha. In this role, you'll work at the intersection of AI product delivery and customer engagement helping define, shape, and drive AI-powered solutions that address mission-critical challenges in finance, energy, and government sectors. You’ll collaborate closely with data scientists, engineers, and senior stakeholders to translate complex business needs into actionable technical solutions. As the voice of the customer, you’ll lead agile delivery cycles, ensure high-quality outcomes, and foster long-term relationships built on trust and impact. ## KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Define & Prioritize Features: Work with customers to identify high-impact problems and define AI-driven product features to address them. - Translate Business Needs: Convert customer requirements into clear technical specifications and use cases for internal teams. - Lead Agile Delivery: Oversee agile sprints and project timelines, ensuring timely and high-quality solution delivery. - Drive Adoption: Travel regionally to engage with users, onboard stakeholders, and gather direct product feedback for continuous improvement. - Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Serve as the bridge between customers and internal teams including data scientists, engineers, and product leads. - Act as Customer Champion: Build trusted relationships and ensure the long-term success of deployed solutions. ## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - Experience: - 3-5 years in customer success, product management, delivery consulting, or technical account management. - Experience at top-tier product or consulting organizations (e.g., Palantir, Google, Amazon, BCG, McKinsey, etc.) - Technical Fluency: - Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, data workflows, and model deployment processes. - Ability to discuss and assess technical trade-offs with engineering teams. - Communication & Relationship Skills: - Proven ability to build rapport and trust with enterprise customers and senior stakeholders. - Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to simplify technical details for non-technical audiences. - Execution & Ownership: - Hands-on mindset with a bias for action and a strong sense of ownership. - Experience managing agile product or project delivery cycles. - Mobility: - Willingness to travel within the region to meet customers and oversee deployments on-site. WHY JOIN US? - Work on transformative AI projects with high-impact clients. - Join a collaborative, mission-driven team at the forefront of applied machine learning. - Operate in a fast-paced, agile environment with real-world outcomes. ## About Brain Co. ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Brain Co. builds applied AI platforms and applications that automate complex, manual workflows for the world’s most important institutions, turning permitting, insurance, supply chain, and patient-care processes from months-long bottlenecks into minutes-long transactions. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also offices in the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Spain) - **Founded**: 2024 (founding conversation in February 2024; public launch in 2025) - **Founders**: Jared Kushner, Dan Ashton (CEO), Elad Gil, Dr. Luis Videgaray, Eric Wu, Mircea Pasoi, Revant Kapoor ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Artificial intelligence, government technology, healthcare, insurance, energy, hospitality, supply chain logistics - **Target customers**: Global 2000 enterprises, federal/state governments, large healthcare systems, insurance carriers (B2B / Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Empower the world’s most important institutions to create an abundant AI future” and “reinvent the broken processes that hold governments and institutions back.” ## Products & Services - **Permitting**: Automates construction and other permitting workflows, cutting the process from months to minutes (claims 99% faster, $375M+ unlocked annually). SaaS / AI workflow platform. - **Specialty Insurance**: Cuts complex underwriting and adjusting workflows from hours to minutes. AI-powered decision engine. - **Supply Chain**: Optimizes end-to-end supply chain operations, delivering 30% lower cost, 99% reliability, and mitigating $100M+ in lost revenue. Integrated AI platform. - **Patient Pathways**: Automates patient care-path management, returning patients to optimal care faster. Healthcare AI application. - **General AI Platform**: An underlying platform that automatically incorporates advances in foundation models, enabling applications to stay current without traditional re-development. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company; Series A at $30M raised) - **Key Metric**: $30 million total funding (Series A, led by Elad Gil and Affinity Partners, announced October 2025) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - Lead investors: Elad Gil (Gil Capital), Affinity Partners - Strategic partner: OpenAI - Angel investors include Ali Ghodsi (CEO Databricks), Andrej Karpathy, Aravind Srinivas (CEO Perplexity), Brian Armstrong (CEO Coinbase), Kevin Weil (CPO OpenAI), Reid Hoffman, Patrick Collison (CEO Stripe), Sarah Guo (Conviction), and many more. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount: 73 employees (LinkedIn, June 2026), monthly growth of +20.2%, quarterly job posting growth +47.4% - 10+ Global 2000 customers and multiple government engagements - $375M+ annual value unlocked in permitting alone; $100M+ supply chain revenue loss mitigated - Strategic partnership with OpenAI for model access and co-innovation - Engineering talent sourced from Stripe, Palantir, Amazon, Adobe, Roblox, and Alchemy ## Competitive Advantages - **Outcome-based pricing**: Revenue model tied to client results, not software licenses – clients pay based on value delivered. - **Production deployment, not pilots**: Every engagement begins with a value case; solutions go straight into production. - **Domain-expertise embedded**: Subject matter experts in each vertical (government, insurance, healthcare) work alongside AI engineers to build around specific rules, regulations, and workflows. - **Future-proof AI**: Applications automatically incorporate new capabilities from foundation models as they are released, avoiding obsolescence. - **Enterprise-grade security**: SOC 2 and HIPAA-ready infrastructure with hallucination controls and guardrails. ## Strategic Focus - Scale the platform across additional government and enterprise verticals (e.g., energy, hospitality) - Deepen the partnership with OpenAI to rapidly leverage newest model capabilities - Expand headcount (28 active job postings, especially in AI engineering, infrastructure, security, and deployment) - Extend presence in the Middle East (Qatar, UAE) and Europe (UK, Spain) - Continue building a new software-development paradigm where applications auto-update with AI advances ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “World-class talent built to deliver applied AI in production.” The team includes engineers from Tesla, NVIDIA, DeepMind, and top tech companies. Emphasis on solving hard, high-impact problems for the largest institutions. - **Remote/hybrid/office**: Not explicitly stated, but headquarters in San Francisco with distributed teams in UAE, UK, and Spain. Likely a hybrid or office-first model given the nature of client engagements. - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: - Outcome-driven work: every project tied to measurable value cases - Direct partnership with OpenAI and access to cutting-edge models - High-caliber co-founders (Kushner, Gil, Videgaray, Wu) and leadership (Marne Levine, former COO Instagram/Meta) - Rapidly growing (~73 people, +20% monthly headcount growth) – offers early-stage ownership - Roles span AI platform engineering, agentic systems, infrastructure, security, and deployment consulting ## Sources 1. [brain.co](https://brain.co/) – Main site overview 2. [brain.co](https://brain.co/blog/introducing-brain-co-9gk9a) – Introducing Brain Co. blog post (funding, founders, investors, customers) 3. [braincompany.ai](https://braincompany.ai/about) – About page (team, approach, security) 4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/brainco-ai/jobs) – LinkedIn company page (headcount, growth, job postings, talent sources) 5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brainco/) – Careers page (open positions) ## Other roles at Brain Co. - [Product Manager, Financial Services](https://feeny.ai/job/product-manager-financial-services-brain-co-san-francisco-3fa24156j0vd) — San Francisco, CA - [Private Equity Engagement Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/private-equity-engagement-lead-brain-co-san-francisco-dsr10m5g52v2) — San Francisco, CA - [Specialty Insurance Underwriter/Coverage Attorney/Consultant/Professional (Contract)](https://feeny.ai/job/specialty-insurance-underwriter-coverage-attorney-consultant-professional-qwspr442emtg) - [Commercial/Transactional Lawyer](https://feeny.ai/job/commercial-transactional-lawyer-brain-co-remote-4aeem8qsj0cn) - [Machine Learning Engineer, Platform](https://feeny.ai/job/machine-learning-engineer-platform-brain-co-san-francisco-3b4v2yrmrnjd) — San Francisco, CA - [Full Cycle Technical Recruiter](https://feeny.ai/job/full-cycle-technical-recruiter-brain-co-san-francisco-wwne111bgb3d) — San Francisco, CA - [Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI - Deployed](https://feeny.ai/job/machine-learning-engineer-applied-ai-deployed-brain-co-london-8n2mv9qr9d3v) — London, United Kingdom - [AI Product Engineer, Deployed](https://feeny.ai/job/ai-product-engineer-deployed-brain-co-london-wknmh7b52szs) — London, United Kingdom - [AI Platform & Infrastructure Engineer, Deployed](https://feeny.ai/job/ai-platform-infrastructure-engineer-deployed-brain-co-abu-dhabi-w9efm94wfs0s) — Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - [AI Deployment Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/ai-deployment-lead-brain-co-san-francisco-bgg9872de6c2) — San Francisco, CA