Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads Creative (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads Creative (AI): Defining and driving the technical vision for hirify.global’s end-to-end creative platform, powering creative rendering, selection, optimization, and delivery across the hirify.global Ads ecosystem. Focus on building and scaling display, video, or interactive ad systems and influencing the technical direction of revenue-critical systems at the intersection of distributed systems, mobile SDKs, machine learning, and large-scale ad delivery.

Location: Onsite in Menlo Park, California or Seattle, Washington, United States. This role is open to United States Residents Only.

Salary: $270,000–$318,000 USD

Company

hirify.global builds powerful AI advertising solutions, democratizing access to advanced AI for businesses, with headquarters in Silicon Valley and offices globally.

What you will do

• Define and drive the long-term technical vision for hirify.global’s end-to-end creative platform, spanning rendering, selection, optimization, and delivery.
• Own the architecture and evolution of the full creative lifecycle, ensuring scalable, low-latency, and high-quality ad experiences globally.
• Lead the design and launch of new ad formats (image, video, playable, interactive), coordinating across multiple teams.
• Act as the technical authority connecting creative systems with auction dynamics, ranking models, and monetization strategy.
• Provide cross-organizational technical leadership, mentoring senior engineers and aligning teams around a cohesive creative platform roadmap.
• Influence the technical direction of a revenue-critical system at the intersection of distributed systems, mobile SDKs, machine learning, and large-scale ad delivery.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including operating at Staff or Principal level scope.
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Proven experience building and scaling display, video, or interactive/playable ad systems in a production advertising environment.
• Hands-on experience designing creative processing systems, including ingestion, validation, transformation, rendering, selection, and performance optimization.
• Deep understanding of digital ad creative delivery challenges, including low-latency serving, SDK constraints, and ML-driven ranking.
• Strong system design skills, from requirements gathering through architecture, implementation, and production ownership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-team technical initiatives, influence architectural direction, and mentor senior engineers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Innovative benefits focusing on well-being and inclusion for United States Residents.
• Values include leading with humility, an uncapped growth mindset, creating real value, and going further together.
• Opportunities for learning, growth, and continuous improvement.
• Focus on collaboration and proactive teamwork.
• Competitive benefits package.