Founding Engineer - Elo
$140k - $200k • Remote • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 5mo ago
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Engineer
About the job
Elo is building the ad network for consumer AI applications, experiencing rapid growth with millions of users acquired in a short period. As AI becomes the primary user interface, digital advertising will integrate into AI experiences. Elo aims to monetize AI apps by connecting them with advertisers to reach the right audience at the right time. Backed by prominent venture capital firms and advised by industry experts, the company is poised to revolutionize AI-driven advertising. The founding engineer will play a crucial role in designing the core ad delivery engine and supporting infrastructure, handling millions of requests per minute and scaling to meet future demand.
Responsibilities
- Design the ad delivery engine for AI experiences and supporting infrastructure.
- Build and improve the ad decisioning pipeline, including candidate retrieval, scoring, filtering, and ranking under strict latency SLAs.
- Develop a lightweight Publisher SDK for easy integration by AI app developers.
- Implement delivery infrastructure for pacing, frequency capping, budget management, and campaign throttling.
- Create an observability stack with real-time dashboards for key performance metrics like auction win rates, fill rates, revenue, and latency.
Requirements
- Demonstrated technical excellence.
- Experience building AI agent harnesses or multi-agent workflows.
- Experience with low-latency network infrastructure and data pipelines serving millions of requests per second.
- Experience with scalable and self-healing infrastructure managing thousands of compute workers.
- Experience with high-frequency trading systems.
- Strong understanding of engineering design and low-level systems.
- Ability to operate independently and ship quickly.
- Proficiency in using AI to accelerate impact.
Benefits
- High equity
- Competitive compensation