Founding Engineer - Elo

The role

The founding engineer will design the engine for ad delivery inside AI experiences and supporting infrastructure. You will work on the ad decisioning pipeline, publisher SDK, delivery infrastructure, and observability stack.

What you will do

• Build the ad decisioning pipeline including candidate retrieval, scoring, filtering, and final ranking
• Build a lightweight publisher SDK for AI app developers
• Build delivery infrastructure for pacing, frequency capping, budget management, and campaign throttling
• Build an observability stack for real-time dashboards

Required qualifications

• Technical excellence
• Care about your craft and operate ethically
• Take extreme ownership of outcomes
• Like to operate independently
• Ship extremely fast and effectively use AI to accelerate your impact
• Want to operate in a fun and social work environment

Nice to have

• Built an AI agent harness or multi-agent workflow for complex tasks
• Built low latency network infrastructure and data pipelines serving millions of requests per second
• Built scalable and self-healing infrastructure with 1000s of compute workers
• Built high frequency trading systems
• Engineering design and low-level systems understanding

About the company

Elo is the ad-network for consumer AI applications. They are backed by PearVC and Audacious Ventures.