Build the platform we want to use.
braincell is a small team of engineers, designers, and AI researchers who think agents should ship working software, not slide decks. We hire async-first across roles and timezones.
- 11
- Engineers, designers, researchers
- 9
- Timezones, async-first
- 100%
- Remote, equity for everyone
Four principles, lived weekly.
Models do the typing.
Our job is to make the agent right, not to write the code. We optimize for prompt design, eval pipelines, and well-shaped tools.
Async-first, everywhere.
We hire across timezones. Default to writing, default to recording, default to making decisions reversible.
Ship to the customer, not the demo.
Every change rides a live sandbox first. If it can't survive a real microVM, it doesn't merge.
Taste is a load-bearing skill.
Designers, engineers, and researchers all touch the visual surface. We hire for taste the way we hire for ability.
What the team actually says.
Three reviews from inside the building, none of them written by HR.
“I joined to ship agents I'd want to use. Six weeks in, I shipped two features I'd have killed to have at my last job.”
“Async-first is the real deal here. I push code at 11pm in Berlin, my US teammate ships the follow-up before I wake up.”
“We are the smallest team I've ever worked on with the biggest output. The agent does the typing, we do the thinking.”
Open roles
4 open- ApplyEngineeringFull-time · Remote
Founding Engineer (Full-stack)
Own product surfaces end-to-end: Next.js 16 app router, Drizzle on Postgres, Vercel microVMs, and the agent loop in between.
- ApplyAI ResearchFull-time · Remote
AI Agent Engineer
Tune the prompts, the tool-calls, and the snapshot/rollback contracts that decide how an agent reasons across hundreds of files.
- ApplyDesignFull-time · Berlin
Design Engineer
Take the visual identity from landing standard to product depth. Motion, typography, micro-interactions, brand systems.
- ApplyOperationsContract · Remote
Developer Relations
Ship demos, host streams, run the community Discord, and help founders go from 'I have an idea' to a live URL on stage.
Don't see a fit? Send us something cool you've shipped and we'll keep you in mind for the next round.
Ship first. Apply second.
The best applications come with a link, not a résumé. Try braincell and send us what you build.