Founding Engineer - Elo

Pear VC, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Design and build the core ad delivery engine for AI-powered consumer applications, handling millions of requests per minute with strict latency SLAs
• Develop the ad decisioning pipeline including candidate retrieval, scoring, filtering, and final ranking to serve contextually relevant ads in real-time AI interactions
• Create and maintain a lightweight publisher SDK that enables AI app developers to integrate ad capabilities within hours, not days
• Architect scalable and self-healing infrastructure capable of dynamically provisioning and decommissioning thousands of compute workers based on variable traffic demand
• Implement delivery infrastructure for pacing, frequency capping, budget management, and campaign throttling to ensure advertiser ROI and publisher revenue optimization
• Build a comprehensive observability stack with real-time dashboards tracking auction win rates, fill rates, revenue metrics, and latency percentiles across global publisher networks
• Collaborate directly with the founder—formerly an AI infrastructure researcher at Google—to refine the technical roadmap and drive product-market alignment
• Optimize system performance under extreme scale, ensuring sub-100ms response times for ad responses within conversational AI interfaces
• Design fault-tolerant data pipelines that ingest and process high-velocity signals from AI applications to inform real-time bidding and targeting decisions
• Integrate with advertiser demand sources and publisher supply partners to enable seamless auction dynamics and bid optimization across diverse AI use cases
• Establish monitoring and alerting systems to detect and resolve service degradation, data anomalies, or revenue leakage within seconds
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate development cycles, automate repetitive tasks, and improve code quality without compromising system reliability
• Work in a fast-paced, early-stage environment where engineering decisions directly shape the future of AI advertising
• Operate with extreme ownership, shipping production-grade systems rapidly while maintaining high standards of technical excellence and ethical engineering
• Independently own critical components of the stack, from low-level network protocols to distributed caching systems, with minimal supervision
• Contribute to a social and fun work culture focused on rapid iteration, transparency, and mutual growth

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience building low-latency network infrastructure serving millions of requests per second
• Demonstrated track record of designing scalable, self-healing systems with dynamic compute orchestration
• Hands-on experience with high-frequency trading systems or equivalent real-time decisioning pipelines
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, caching, and data pipeline optimization

🏖️ Benefits

• High equity stake in a startup backed by Pear VC and Audacious Ventures
• Competitive cash compensation ranging from $170K to $220K
• Fast feedback loop—apply and hear back in less than a day
• Opportunity to shape the foundational technology of a new category: AI ad networks

Skills & Technologies

Onsite

$170k-220k

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About Pear VC, Inc.

Pear VC is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco. It invests pre-seed and seed capital in enterprise software, consumer, fintech, healthcare, and deep-tech startups. The firm provides founders with a full-time, in-house product, design, and growth team during the company-building phase. Pear manages over $1.8 billion across multiple funds and has backed companies such as DoorDash, Guardant Health, Gusto, and Branch. The partnership emphasizes hands-on support, data-driven insights, and a tight-knit community to accelerate product-market fit and subsequent fundraising.

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