The role
- COMP
- $200K - $300K
- EQUITY
- Competitive equity
- LOCATION
- San Francisco
- WORKPLACE
- On-site
- EXPERIENCE
- 3+ years
- VISA
- None, Visa transfers
- STACK
- Python
- INDUSTRY
- AI, Marketing, Ad Tech
/roles — ROLE_486
AI Engineer, Intelligence & Optimization
Fast-growing ad tech startup whose autonomous AI agents run paid campaigns on behalf of marketers
The company
A fast-growing, venture-backed startup whose autonomous AI agents manage paid advertising for marketing teams, taking over the media buying work usually done by specialists.
- STAGE
- Series A-stage
- FUNDING
- $10M+ raised
- TEAM
- ~20 people
- FOUNDED
- 2023
JD — the work
About the role
You would own the decision-making layer of an autonomous platform that runs live ad campaigns with real budgets: what to bid, where to move spend, and what to pause or scale. Other engineers build the platform tooling; your job is the decisions themselves, and each one is judged by the return it produces. The team is small and on-site in San Francisco, and the role suits engineers who are always experimenting with something new.
What you'll do
- Build scoring and recommendation logic for bids, budget moves, pausing or boosting campaigns, and postbacks
- Create the feedback loop that lets results compound into better campaign strategy over time
- Write optimization policies that cope with noisy, real-time data, from simple rules to post-training and reinforcement learning
- Coordinate several agents that share campaign context and collaborate, and assess the quality of their work
- Own the outcome: the quality of each decision and the return on ad spend, not simulation or platform plumbing
What they're looking for
- 3+ years of experience building ML or decision systems that run in production
- Strong Python and comfort working with noisy, live data
- Experience with recommendation, scoring, or optimization systems
- Familiarity with reinforcement learning, post-training, or orchestrating multiple agents
- Comfort being measured on outcomes tied to real money