Pear VC
Founding Engineer - Elo
About this role
Elo is seeking a Founding Engineer to design and enhance their ad delivery engine for consumer AI applications. This role offers competitive compensation and a chance to shape the infrastructure for contextually relevant ads while working in a fast-paced environment.
What you'll do
- Develop ad decisioning pipeline for candidate retrieval, scoring, and ranking
- Create a lightweight publisher SDK for easy integration
- Build delivery infrastructure including pacing and budget management
- Implement observability stack with real-time dashboards
- Handle millions of requests per minute as user base grows
- Collaborate on high equity projects with top industry advisors
What they're looking for
- Technical excellence in engineering
- Experience with AI agents or multi-agent workflows
- Knowledge of low latency network infrastructure
- Familiarity with scalable and self-healing systems
- Background in high frequency trading systems
- Strong understanding of data pipelines
Benefits
- High equity opportunities
- Competitive salary range ($170K-$220K)
- Flexible and fast-paced work environment
- Supportive of independent and ethical work
- Social and fun work culture
- Quick application response time
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Pear VC
Pear VC invests in and supports AI-driven enterprise software companies building automation platforms, compliance systems, and specialized tools across industries like financial services, insurance, and software development. The portfolio companies are hiring founding and senior engineers to design core infrastructure, build AI systems, and develop scalable backend platforms alongside their leadership teams.
View all jobs at Pear VCLikely interview questions
- Walk us through a system you've built that had to handle millions of requests per minute with strict latency SLAs. How did you approach the design trade-offs?
- Describe your experience building ad ranking or matching systems. How did you balance relevance, latency, and business metrics like revenue?