TL;DR
Founding Engineer (AI): Design and develop the core ad delivery engine and supporting infrastructure for a consumer AI ad network. With an accent on low latency ad decisioning pipelines, scalable delivery infrastructure, and real-time observability. Focus on building high-throughput systems handling millions of requests per minute and integrating lightweight SDKs for AI apps.
Location: Remote (United States), based in San Francisco
Salary: $170,000–$220,000
Company
Pear VC is a venture capital firm backing high-growth startups including Growl, an AI consumer ad network.
What you will do
- Design and build the ad decisioning pipeline with candidate retrieval, scoring, filtering, and ranking under strict latency SLAs
- Develop a lightweight publisher SDK for AI app developers
- Implement delivery infrastructure including pacing, frequency capping, budget management, and campaign throttling
- Create real-time observability dashboards for auction metrics and system performance
Requirements
- Location: Must be based in the United States
- Experience building AI agents or multi-agent workflows for complex tasks
- Expertise in low latency network infrastructure and data pipelines serving millions of requests per second
- Proven ability to build scalable, self-healing infrastructure with dynamic compute resources
- Experience with high frequency trading systems or similar high-caliber engineering design
- Strong ownership, ethical operation, and ability to work independently
Culture & Benefits
- Competitive compensation with high equity
- Fast hiring process with response in less than a day
- Fun and social work environment
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI ad technology