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Learning Specialist roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in education, instructional design, or a related field. Employers in K-12 districts, higher education, and corporate L&D regularly file LCAs for this role. Cap-subject petitions enter the annual lottery, but cap-exempt institutions like universities and nonprofits can file year-round.
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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.
Machine Learning Engineer, Platform
About the Role
So much of the work society depends on is still slower and harder than it should be. Permits take months. Claims sit unresolved. And AI hasn't changed that — because the bottleneck isn't the models. It's the institutional context AI needs to do the work: rules, history, relationships, and judgment scattered across people, documents, and legacy systems.
BrainCo exists to fix that. We build agent-native operating systems for the institutions society depends on, and our products are the first of their kind in the world — we were the first, anywhere, to fully automate construction permitting, and we're now doing the same across insurance and other industries. There is no playbook here, because no one has built this before.
As a Machine Learning Engineer on Platform, you'll build the core ML capabilities every product we ship stands on — built once, shared everywhere. This is the leverage seat in the company: improve document extraction, and every vertical improves with it; strengthen the blueprint foundation model, and every construction workflow gets sharper; ship a better improvement loop, and every system we've ever deployed keeps getting better on its own.
Come help build Atlas — our platform which includes a foundation model for the world's construction documents, extraction agents that read everything from policy stacks to financial filings, a unified eval system across every use case, model routing that puts the right model on the right task at the right cost. You'll own each capability end-to-end — from the pod that needs it this quarter to the abstraction that serves ten pods next year. Your customers are never abstract: they're the project pods building on your work, and through them, every institution we serve.
Who We're Looking For
You understand how machine learning actually works — not just the tooling, but the philosophy underneath: what a loss function really optimizes, how generalization breaks under distribution shift, why evaluation is where systems quietly go wrong. And you live at the bleeding edge of modern AI, with hard-won instincts for squeezing the most out of LLMs and agentic systems — prompting, fine-tuning, tool use, and reasoning. That combination is the job: you know when a fine-tuned segmentation model beats a VLM, when a rule engine beats both, and how to compose all three into a system more accurate than any single model. You treat frontier models as components to be measured, pushed, and engineered — never as magic.
You also have the platform instinct: you spot the general capability hiding inside three teams' specific requests — and know when generalizing is premature. You treat internal teams as real customers with real deadlines, and measure your success in their velocity.
Most of all, you're energized by building things that have never existed, and comfortable when the problem, the data, and the definition of success all have to be invented at once.
The Problems You'll Work On
Agents as shared capabilities. Document extraction, financial reporting, market data — built once, composed into many products. The dual bar: general enough for any pod to pick up, precise enough for decisions institutions stake their processes on.
Institutional Intelligence that compounds. Every verified correction improves the system twice: the corrected fact percolates to every application, and the system that builds the intelligence learns to build it better. You'll build the models behind both loops.
A foundation model for construction documents. The documents the built world runs on have never had a foundation model of their own. We have the data, the deployments, and the feedback loops to build one.
Model routing across every use case. The right model, at the right cost and latency, for every task — swapping frontier models underneath production systems without breaking institutional-grade guarantees.
One eval system for everything. A common language for quality across every use case — from segmentation models checking blueprints to agents adjudicating claims — that catches regressions before customers ever see them.
Composite AI systems and credit assignment. When a pipeline of vision models, VLM reasoning, and rule engines is wrong, which component failed? Because the components are shared, this is a platform problem — and one of the most interesting open problems in applied ML.
Continuous improvement, engineered. We promise customers their system gets measurably better every month it runs. You'll build the machinery that keeps that promise: capturing production corrections, triaging failures to the component that caused them, and turning that signal into retraining and safe redeployment — automatically, across every use case.
In This Role, You Will:
Turn pod needs into platform capabilities — find the general capability inside one team's specific, urgent request, without over-abstracting before the pattern is proven.
Own capabilities end-to-end. There is no handoff: whoever builds the capability owns its behavior in production, across every deployment that uses it.
Work at the research frontier with production stakes, turning LLMs, RL fine-tuning, and agentic systems into capabilities that dozens of institutional workflows depend on at once.
Serve customers on both sides of the wall — project pods as true customers, and when needed, the domain experts whose decisions your capabilities ultimately power.
Engineer for production reality, navigating accuracy, latency, cost, and reliability across environments far messier than any benchmark.
Raise the bar across the company. The platform is how learnings travel: what one pod discovers, you turn into something every pod inherits.
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Verify your degree field matches the role
USCIS evaluates whether your bachelor's degree directly relates to the Learning Specialist duties listed in the job posting. A degree in instructional design, curriculum development, psychology, or education typically satisfies the specialty occupation requirement. A business or unrelated degree may trigger a Request for Evidence.
Target cap-exempt employers first
Universities, nonprofits, and government research organizations can file H-1B petitions outside the annual lottery. Learning Specialist roles exist in all three categories. Filtering your search to these institutions gives you a filing path that isn't tied to the April registration window.
Search LCA filings to confirm sponsorship history
Use Migrate Mate to filter Learning Specialist jobs by employers who have active LCA filings for this occupation code. Seeing verified DOL Labor Condition Application history tells you the employer has already cleared the wage and documentation step, not just expressed willingness to sponsor.
Check prevailing wage before negotiating salary
The DOL assigns Learning Specialist roles to SOC code 25-9031. Run your target employer's location through the OFLC Wage Search to see the Level I through Level IV wage floors before your first salary conversation. Offers below the prevailing wage cannot be certified on an LCA.
Clarify STEM OPT eligibility with your DSO early
If you're on OPT and your Learning Specialist role is housed in an instructional technology or educational data unit, your DSO may be able to designate it under a STEM-eligible SOC code. That extension gives you two additional years before your employer needs to file your H-1B petition.
Confirm the job description matches O*NET requirements
USCIS cross-references H-1B specialty occupation claims against the O*NET occupation profile for the listed SOC code. Ask your employer to align the job posting's required qualifications with the O*NET entry-level education standard before the LCA is filed, reducing the risk of a denial based on occupational mismatch.
H-1B Visa Learning Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Learning Specialist role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the employer's job description requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as education, instructional design, curriculum development, or learning sciences. USCIS looks at whether the degree requirement is standard for the position, not just preferred. Generic postings that accept any bachelor's degree can create problems at adjudication, so the job description's language matters.
Which types of employers hire Learning Specialists and sponsor H-1B visas?
K-12 school districts, colleges and universities, corporate learning and development departments, edtech companies, and healthcare systems all hire Learning Specialists and have filed LCAs for the role. Universities and nonprofits are cap-exempt, meaning they can file year-round without entering the lottery. You can search employers with verified H-1B filing history for this role on Migrate Mate.
How does the H-1B lottery affect Learning Specialist job seekers?
Cap-subject employers, typically for-profit companies, must register you in the annual H-1B lottery held each March. With a selection rate under 30% in recent fiscal years, a single registration doesn't guarantee a filing slot. Prioritizing cap-exempt employers like universities or nonprofit training organizations eliminates lottery risk entirely and lets your employer file at any point in the year.
What SOC code applies to Learning Specialist roles under an H-1B petition?
Most Learning Specialist roles are classified under SOC code 25-9031, Instructional Coordinators, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics defines as requiring a master's degree for many positions. Your employer uses this code when filing the LCA with DOL. The SOC code also determines your prevailing wage level, so verifying the correct code before the LCA is submitted protects both sides from a wage compliance issue later.
Can an OPT student working as a Learning Specialist transition to H-1B status?
Yes. If you're on standard OPT, your employer needs to file your H-1B petition during the March registration window. If your role falls under a STEM-eligible SOC code and your employer is E-Verify enrolled, your DSO may approve a STEM OPT extension, giving you up to two additional years of work authorization. That extension significantly reduces timing pressure on the H-1B filing.