AI Code Engineering Lead, MadHive
$200-225k
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Financial District, NYC)
Advertising solution leveraging cryptography & machine learning
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Advertising solution leveraging cryptography & machine learning
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-225k
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Financial District, NYC)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To take complex, cutting-edge technology and turn it into intuitive, easy-to-use solutions that empower local media buyers.
Role
Who you are
- Technical Excellence: A builder who clears a staff-engineer bar (10+ years experience) at a strong company and still wants to ship. You have a history of shipping production code at staff scope
- Adoption Leadership: Evidence of driving adoption of at least one engineering practice or tool to org-wide scale through Product & Engineering organizations
- Tool Fluency: Expertise in agentic coding tools across the full SDLC (AI coding agents, eval/observability frameworks, CI/CD, testing). Experience building or running an eval harness is essential
- Mindset: Grit in ambiguous problems and curiosity about business mechanics. You reason rigorously about how AI can inflate output and design specifically against stability risks
- Eval Rigor: Hands-on with evaluation-driven development — precision/recall benchmarks, human review queues, and audit trails — not just standing up an eval harness
What the job involves
- Madhive is seeking an AI Code Engineering Lead to make our engineering dramatically faster with AI-native practice and tooling. Madhive is an R&D company; engineering velocity is the leverage point
- You'll build and scale our agentic coding platform — the tooling and workflows that let AI generate production code with engineers reviewing rather than writing it
- This is a hands-on role: you'll work directly with engineering teams to ship acceleration fast, then turn what works into reusable building blocks the whole org can use. You'll lead through technical credibility and influence
- This is a hybrid role, working 3 days a week at Madhive HQ in the Financial District of New York City
- Own AI-native engineering practice, the eval harness, reusable AI building blocks, and developer tooling that dramatically raise output
- Manage a portfolio of velocity V1s, ensuring each is integrated into the CTO’s org (which owns architecture, delivery, and V2)
- Facilitate smooth handoffs to the engineering organization; ensure every acceleration V1 lands in the CTO’s org with a named owner identified upfront
- Codify what works into reusable "golden path" playbooks — deployment patterns, connector and building-block templates, evaluation frameworks, and observability standards — and feed field learnings back to platform teams so wins compound across the org
- How Success is Measured:
- North Star: The share of eligible shipped code produced end-to-end by autonomous AI workflows, rising cycle over cycle
- Supporting Metrics: Delivery velocity (deploy frequency, lead time) and developer experience
- Guardrail: A quality/stability bar (e.g., code churn and change-fail rate) held at or below the human-only baseline
- Eligibility: Autonomous output counts only where policy allows and after normal engineering acceptance
Our take
The rise in streaming content has revolutionized digital advertising, offering advertisers the potential for more precise campaign calibration. However, alongside this opportunity come new challenges such as consumer overload, ad fraud and data privacy concerns, compounded by the need to integrate with traditional linear television. Navigating these complexities requires a comprehensive solution, and that's where MadHive steps in.
Utilizing AI technology, MadHive's video ad software suite tackles these challenges head-on. It intelligently identifies optimal ad placements, manages ad frequency to prevent saturation, and gauges consumer intent across various platforms including web, mobile and TV. This capability allows advertisers to execute nationwide campaigns with pinpoint local targeting - a remarkable achievement in the dynamic digital content landscape.
Unsurprisingly, MadHive boasts an impressive client roster, boasting a 95% renewal rate with major names like Fox, McAfee and Tegna Premion. This consistent satisfaction has propelled MadHive to expand its offering into critical areas such as data privacy. It also launched the industry's first agentic suite for local media, that supports users to build smarter campaigns faster, and hence accelerate their revenue.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2023
$300m
LATE VC
Aug 2018
$3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $306.4m
Company benefits
- 401(K) Matching
- Company Equity
- Retirement Plans
- Performance Bonuses
- 100% Company-Covered Health Insurance
- Dental Benefits
- Vision Benefits
- Generous Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Paid Holidays
- Unlimited Vacation
- Free Lunch In-Office
- Commuter Benefits
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
Leadership
Jim Wilson
(CEO)Prior to joining Madhive in 2024, Jim was the CEO of North America for Talon.
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