Founding Engineer - Polynomic
Company: Pear VC
Location: New York City
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
The current ad market sucks. At Polynomic, we’re reimagining
performance marketing from the ground up. We believe that ads, in
various new forms, will continue to be the primary business model
of the internet and the backbone of growth in commerce. Yet
performance marketing today is heavily dependent on outdated
playbooks, guesswork, manual effort. We believe that brands
shouldn’t have to throw spaghetti at the wall and hope to get lucky
to find growth. We are at an inflection point with AI and have a
unique opportunity to make ads more efficient and profitable for
brands through our agentic platform. We are building autonomous,
intelligent systems where brands can plug in and find the most
profitable ways to grow their revenue through ads, instead of
having to hire expensive agencies or spend countless hours
optimizing ad campaigns. Polynomic was founded by Madhav (ex Google
Ads, Citadel, HBS, Harvard) and Nathan (ex Google Research, HBS,
Stanford CS). Madhav launched a new AI ads product (0 -> $675M
ARR) at Google, and Nathan launched Google’s first transformer
model in production. We’re a well-funded seed stage startup backed
by top VCs and angel investors and already have multiple
high-growth consumer brands as paying customers. Role: As a
Founding Engineer, you’ll define and build the core technology
stack that powers Polynomic. You’ll work on frontier AI problems,
data infrastructure, and agent orchestration to build autonomous,
intelligent systems to deliver the next generation of performance
marketing. Preferred Experience: Exceptional talent shows up in a
lot of forms. You've demonstrated unusually strong ability and pace
through shipped products, research, open-source, startups,
competitions, or other deeply technical work You’re excited to own
and deliver on ambitious, ambiguous projects that involve solving
hard technical challenges (RL, bandits, reasoning, agent
reliability, ad creative generation workflows) You care about the
problem of running efficient digital ads and recognize their impact
on global commerce This is an in-person opportunity in New York.
Compensation: $180k-$300k 1-2% equity 401k, fully funded medical,
dental, and vision insurance Relocation support to move to NYC
Keywords: Pear VC, Newark , Founding Engineer - Polynomic, PR / Public Relations , New York City, New Jersey
