Founding Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners · San Francisco · onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join an early-stage advertising technology team building an ad recommendation and serving platform for AI entertainment and mobile gaming. As a Founding Engineer, you will own systems that select and deliver relevant interactive ads in real time, working across data, machine learning, and production infrastructure.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design and ship low-latency retrieval, ranking, and reranking systems that select campaigns and creative while balancing advertiser performance with user experience.
- Build data pipelines and feature infrastructure for continuous model training across clicks, installs, and conversions.
- Develop user and context representations from conversational signals, engagement history, device, location, session, and interaction data.
- Build cost-efficient serving infrastructure that meets sub-second latency requirements.
- Create generative agents that produce playable and video ad variants, and feed performance signals back into recommendation systems.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Typically 0 to 3 years of experience, with hands-on experience shipping at least one machine learning or AI system to production.
- End-to-end experience building data architecture, feature pipelines, and serving infrastructure, in addition to developing models.
- Strong generalist engineering skills across backend systems, machine learning, and infrastructure, with experience using PyTorch.
- Experience with recommendation systems, ranking, or advertising technology is valuable.
- Active GitHub or side projects demonstrating work across backend, ML, and infrastructure.
- Interest in gaming, including experience with League of Legends or mobile games and rewarded ads.
- Consumer technology or advertising infrastructure experience is relevant.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $200,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week.