Backend Research Engineer at MadHive

Madhive is the leading tech company engineered for modern TV advertising. Advertisers seamlessly customize and automate the OTT buying process into an operating system with our self-service platform. Powered by our industry-leading bidder and device graph that processes 260 billion available ad opportunities per day, we deliver precise, brand-safe, audience connections efficiently at scale.

About Madhive

Madhive is the leading tech company engineered for modern TV advertising. Advertisers seamlessly customize and automate the OTT buying process into an operating system with our self-service platform. Powered by our industry-leading bidder and device graph that processes 260 billion available ad opportunities per day, we deliver precise, brand-safe audience connections efficiently at scale.

We are seeking a Research Engineer specializing in Backend engineering to join Mad Labs, Madhive's research and development organization. Our goal is to build software like it’s 2035. We work on hard problems in adtech as part of a fast-paced small team. These prototypes serve as a model for the industry and are also used by other departments at Madhive.

What you’ll do…

• Develop solution hypotheses to novel problems in adtech, typically working on several problems at once

• Build and iterate prototypes that (in)validate those hypotheses;

• Report to management on progress, successes achieved, and learnings from failures

• Present successful prototypes to Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams at Madhive.

• You’ll contribute as part of a small team to create novel, inventive, or revolutionary adtech prototypes that are ML-forward, UX-elegant, and data-performant using the following tools:

  • Go

  • SQL

  • Kubernetes

  • GPU / SIMD

  • Distributed Systems

  • Google Cloud

  • Spanner

  • gRPC

  • Parquet, Arrow, Beam, Spark

  • Streaming data transforms

  • Testing (Bazel)

Who you are…

• Experience with product design and development, especially in a fast-paced or startup environment

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in data science, engineering, or a related field

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in product development or R&D

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Willingness to invalidate your own previous hypotheses and develop new stronger hypotheses.

• Strong ownership mentality, attention to detail, and ability to multitask

We are Madhive

We empower our clients to create enduring relationships with consumers through maximum-fidelity, TV-first technology that elevates media, embodies relentless innovation, and ensures unrivaled revenue acceleration.

Madhive is a dynamic, diverse, innovative, and friendly place to work. We embrace our differences and believe they fuel our creativity. We come from varied backgrounds and think that’s important. Whether it’s taking ideas from previous lives and applying them in different ways or creating something completely new, we are all trail-blazing team players who think big and want to make an impact. 

We are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and collaboration. We welcome diversity in education, culture, opinions, race, ethnicity, gender identity, veteran status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

Please be advised that we will NOT be using third-party recruiting agencies for this search.