Founding Engineer - Growl
About The Position
Growl is the ad-network for consumer AI applications. We’ve gone from 0 to XXM users in our publisher network in 45 days of inception. Background With AI becoming the primary surface of interaction for internet users, it is inevitable that digital advertising will happen within AI experiences (including but not limited to chat). Growl is aggregating supply across consumer AI apps to help them monetize their users via ads and help advertisers reach the right audience at the right moment. We’re backed by top funds like PearVC and Audacious Ventures who’ve invested in billion dollar companies like Doordash and WorkOS. We also have advisors from mobile ad-tech and large consumer AI companies helping us in our mission. Founder is Sahil Manocha who’s a published researcher and has previously built ad infrastructure at Google. Progress We’ve already solved the hardest cold start problem with ad networks: onboarding both advertisers and publishers. Now, we need to build and improve the core infrastructure to serve the most contextually relevant ads at the right moment. Role Founding engineer who’ll help us design the engine for ad delivery inside AI experiences and supporting infrastructure. The role guarantees high equity and competitive compensation ($170K-$220K)
Requirements
- Evidence of technical excellence.
- Your own AI agent harness or multi-agent workflow for complex tasks
- Low latency network infrastructure and data pipelines serving millions of requests per second
- Scalable and self-healing infrastructure with 1000s of compute workers spinning up and down with variable demand
- High frequency trading systems
- 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
Responsibilities
- Ad decisioning pipeline: candidate retrieval, scoring, filtering, and final ranking under strict latency SLAs
- Publisher SDK: lightweight integration that AI app developers embed in hours, not days
- Delivery infrastructure: pacing, frequency capping, budget management, and campaign throttling
- Observability stack: real-time dashboards for auction win rates, fill rates, revenue, and latency percentiles
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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