True Talent Solutions Partners

Founding Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$200,000 - $250,000 annually
Level
Junior
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 29 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Own and evolve the recommendation engine behind an advertising platform for AI entertainment and mobile games. This founding, full-stack role spans data pipelines, machine learning, and production serving, with direct impact on ad performance and user experience.

What You'll Do

  • Design and ship a low-latency ad ranking system that selects campaigns and creative for each opportunity while balancing advertiser returns and user experience.
  • Build data pipelines and feature infrastructure for continuous model training across clicks, installs, and conversions.
  • Model user behavior using conversational signals, engagement history, and contextual information such as location, device, and session activity.
  • Develop efficient serving infrastructure that meets sub-second latency requirements and tight per-impression cost targets.
  • Create generative agents that produce playable and video ad variants, then feed performance data back into the recommendation engine.

What We're Looking For

  • Experience appropriate to an early-career founding engineering role, with 0 to 3 years of experience.
  • Shipped at least one machine learning or AI system to production, and built its data architecture, feature pipelines, and serving infrastructure end to end.
  • Experience with recommendation systems, ranking, or advertising technology, and familiarity with PyTorch.
  • Strong backend, machine learning, and infrastructure skills, demonstrated through production work or active projects.
  • Experience in consumer technology, ad infrastructure, or an early-stage startup is valuable.
  • Interest in gaming, including mobile games and reward ads; experience building games or playable ad formats is a plus.
  • Experience with AI-native products and mentoring or leading engineers is helpful.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

PyTorch

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The team: Client Roles

This role is one of 123 open in Client Roles. 123 were posted in the last 30 days, including 5 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (70 of 123), TypeScript (46 of 123), LLM (44 of 123), React (37 of 123), Machine Learning (35 of 123), AWS (26 of 123), JavaScript (24 of 123)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Posting history

Reposted once since 25 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

  • 29 October 2026 – open (this posting)
  • 25 October 2026 – closed 28 October 2026

Salary context

49 other open postings titled Founding Engineer state a salary: median USD 156,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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