Full-Time
Explainable AI Engineer
Posted on 7/9/2026
Brain Gain Recruiting
11-50 employees
Contingency and retained recruiting services
No salary listed
No H1B Sponsorship
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Remote
US Citizenship Required
Master's, PhD
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- Experience building mission-critical analytical applications in a production environment.
- Hands-on experience with mathematical methods including Operations Research, Bayesian statistics, Monte Carlo analysis, mathematical optimization, and decision and control.
- Experience with MATLAB.
- Experience with model-based development and simulation-based verification.
- Solid experience writing technical documentation.
- Experience working with a software team.
- A graduate degree in Engineering or a related field.
- U.S. citizenship.
- The ability to work with Controlled Unclassified Information for the Department of Defense.
- Understand, develop, and support business impact prediction analytics in Explainable AI Engines.
- Build, evolve, verify, and validate data processing pipeline segments.
- Support scalable deployment of the AI.
- Integrate Explainable AI with large language model tools for an Agentic AI experience.
- Collaborate with the cloud software team and occasionally with customers.
- Document Explainable AI for customer users and internal software developers.
- Develop Operations Research features for AI models.
- Automate data management toward scalability.
- Perform aerospace-grade verification and validation for mission-critical functions using simulations.
- Develop Explainable AI engine interfaces to data, human users, and Agentic AI.
- Experience in supply chain and/or sustainment in the aerospace industry.
- Experience with Java and GitHub Actions.
- Experience building software as a service applications.
- Experience with generative artificial intelligence and large language model augmentation, including retrieval-augmented generation.
- A PhD.
Brain Gain Recruiting finds top full-time, senior-level talent for contingency and retained searches, operating since 2003. They emphasize advanced Boolean search, fearless sourcing, and experienced recruiters to target candidates with substantial experience and advanced degrees for six-figure roles. They report a high client selection rate—about 95% of submitted candidates are invited for interviews—and offer hourly and project-based sourcing, internet research services, and corporate training/webinars. Their goal is to help companies grow by filling senior vacancies efficiently and by strengthening internal sourcing capabilities.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
El Cerrito, California
Founded
2003
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Brain Gain's website was updated July 3, 2026, showing active operations.
- LinkedIn updated July 21, 2026 lists current jobs and two Bay Area locations.
- Its six-digit, specialist searches and sourcing training create higher-margin service and consulting revenue.
What critics are saying
- LinkedIn shows only 2-10 employees; one lost client hits revenue immediately.
- Eightfold AI's January 21, 2026 lawsuit accelerates scrutiny on algorithmic hiring and sourcing commoditization.
- Brain Gain Soft's tooling faces direct competition from larger HR-tech platforms, risking irrelevance.
What makes Brain Gain Recruiting unique
- Founded in 2003, Brain Gain blends recruiting, sourcing, training, and software tools.
- Julia Tverskaya and Irina Shamaeva are former software engineers, managers, and recruiters.
- It targets hard-to-fill high-tech, data science, C-level, healthcare, and aerospace roles.
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