# Founding Engineer

About the Role Join a small engineering team at an early-stage ad technology company to build and evolve the systems that decide which ads reach users in real time. You will own work across data pipelines, machine learning, and production serving, with direct impact on the recommendation system and its business outcomes. What You'll Do Design and ship low-latency ad retrieval, ranking, and reranking systems that balance advertiser performance with user experience. Build data pipelines and feature infrastructure to train models using reward signals that arrive on different timelines, from clicks to conversions. Develop user and context representations from conversational data, engagement history, and signals such as device, location, and session context. Build serving infrastructure designed for sub-second response times and cost efficiency. Create generative agents that produce playable and video ad variations, and feed their performance back into the recommendation system. What We're Looking For Experience level: 0 to 3 years, with at least one ML or AI system shipped to production. End-to-end experience with backend systems, data pipelines, model training, and production se

- **Id**: 4343022
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/true-talent-solutions-partners-founding-engineer-57>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-15T17:58:30Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-15
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T19:50:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2071
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4415660
- **Name**: True Talent Solutions Partners
- **Domain**: truetalentsolutionspartners.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/true-talent-solutions-partners>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: no
- **Reranking** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-15T19:50:39Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 88; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 88 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 4
- **Reasons**: conf:2, agency, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T22:08:11Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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