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# Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer, AI & Search (India) at Yieldmo

- **Company:** Yieldmo
- **Location:** India
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://yieldmo.com/company/?gh_jid=8243707#

## Job description

## Who We Are

Yieldmo is an advertising platform that helps brands invent creative experiences through tech and AI, using custom ad formats, proprietary attention signals, predictive format selection, and privacy-safe premium inventory curation. We believe all ads should be human-centered, tailored, and provoke emotion and action. Yieldmo helps brands deliver the best ad for every impression opportunity, merging creative and media for proven results.

## The Role

We're hiring a Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer (5–10 years of experience) to help build Yieldmo's AI-powered search engine, which will change how users discover and engage with content across major publishers. This is a full-stack role with a strong ML component. You'll build backend services and ML-powered features, and ship the user-facing interfaces that bring them to life.  We care most about builders: engineers who write production code, iterate quickly, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and own their work end to end.

## What You'll Do

- Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that power AI-driven search, including retrieval, ranking, and indexing components.
- Build and deploy ML features into production: embeddings, vector search, RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, and model evaluation.
- Develop responsive, performant front-end experiences that surface search results and AI features to users and internal teams.
- Build and maintain data and content ingestion pipelines that feed the search system.
- Own features end to end, from prototype through production, monitoring, and iteration.
- Partner with Product, ML, and Engineering teams to turn requirements into shipped features.
- Drive quality, performance, and reliability for the services you own, including testing, code reviews, and observability.
- Share knowledge and support teammates; senior engineers will mentor others and contribute to technical design decisions.

## Requirements

- Must be based in India.
- 5–10 years of professional software engineering experience, building and operating production systems.
- Strong backend skills in Python, with solid SQL and experience designing APIs and microservices.
- Hands-on front-end experience with a modern framework (React preferred) plus JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Practical ML experience in production: working with embeddings, vector databases, LLMs, RAG, or ranking/recommendation models.
- Experience with Docker, cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), and CI/CD.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, system design, and testing.
- Clear written and verbal communication, and comfort working cross-functionally in a fast-moving, remote team.
- An ownership mindset: you ship, measure, and improve.

Nice to Haves

- Deeper ML/AI backend experience: model serving, fine-tuning, training pipelines, or online/offline evaluation.
- Experience building search or retrieval systems (inverted indexes, BM25, hybrid search, rerankers).
- Familiarity with data tools such as Kafka, Spark, Airflow, or a modern data warehouse.
- Experience with publisher-scale content, recommendation systems, or adtech.

Hiring Process

Selected candidates will be invited to a 30-minute screening call with our Talent Acquisition team, where we'll share full process details. The process typically includes:

- A 30-minute video interview with the Hiring Manager.
- A remote round of video interviews with team members and leadership.
- An offer for successful candidates.

## Our Values

- Innovation: We encourage curiosity, embrace new ideas, and believe no idea is too bold.
- Agility: We embrace change, act quickly, and adapt with a focus on getting things done.
- Intelligence: We make decisions guided by data, aiming to deliver maximum value to our customers.
- Autonomy: We empower individuals to create their own paths with flexibility and independence.
- Togetherness: We foster teamwork, mutual support, and an environment where every voice matters.

## What We Offer

- Remote work: A fully distributed team, with annual offsites, holiday parties, and more.
- Company-paid health coverage: Medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family.
- Equity: Share in Yieldmo's success through our employee stock option program.
- Flexible time off: Plus company slowdowns and Summer Fridays.
- Home office setup and stipend: Premium technology packages and a stipend for extra needs.
- Professional development: An annual stipend to grow your hard and soft skills.

## About Yieldmo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Yieldmo is an advertising platform that uses AI and proprietary attention signals to help brands create custom, human-centered ad experiences and optimize programmatic media buying.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; total funding $43.2M)
- **Headquarters**: Nashua, New Hampshire, United States (with offices in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles)
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Mike Yavonditte (CEO), Rick Eaton (CFO), Todd Coleman (Chief Architect), Teddy Jawde (co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Digital advertising / AdTech
- **Target customers**: B2B – brands, agencies, and publishers seeking premium programmatic ad inventory and custom ad formats
- **Mission / purpose**: “Imagine Ads That Move People” – helping brands invent creative experiences that are human-centered, tailored, and provoke emotion and action.

## Products & Services
- **[Yieldmo Smart Exchange](https://yieldmo.com)**: A global programmatic ad exchange that connects premium publisher inventory with advertisers. Uses AI-driven predictive technology for format selection, audience matching, and creative optimization.
- **Custom Ad Formats**: High-impact, interactive ad units designed to fit the customer journey (e.g., attention-grabbing rich media, video, and native-like placements).
- **Predictive Creative Intelligence**: Combines agile creative technology with human-centered design to dynamically tailor ads to each impression and publisher context.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key metric**: Annual revenue $9.0M (estimated 2025); total funding $43.2M
- **Notable investors**: Google Ventures (led Series B), MARCorp Financial, Multiply Marketing Consultancy
- **Growth signals**:
  - Processes 100+ TB of data daily
  - 45% of employees in R&D
  - Holds 30+ technical and design patents
  - Operates in 6 countries (U.S., India, Brazil, UK, Israel, Portugal)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary attention signals**: Gathers unique engagement data not available to competitors, enabling faster KPI achievement for advertisers.
- **12+ years of AI refinement**: Leverages a massive dataset from its own exchange to predict and optimize ad delivery.
- **Patent portfolio**: 59 filed patents covering advertising, social networking, and promotion technologies.
- **Privacy-safe premium inventory**: Curates direct publisher inventory in a privacy-compliant manner.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening AI and machine learning capabilities to improve predictive format selection and attention-based optimization.
- Expanding internationally (notably sports and emerging products).
- Maintaining a privacy-first approach as third-party cookies phase out.
- Merging creative and media to deliver proven results (brand awareness to performance).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven with an emphasis on intelligence, agility, innovation, autonomy, and togetherness. Strong DEI commitment with inclusive hiring and equity practices.
- **Work model**: Fully remote for most roles; employees in NYC, Chicago, and LA are expected in the office one day per week (Wednesdays). WeWork passes provided.
- **Perks**: Employer-paid health benefits & HSA contributions, 401k match, flexible time off & sick days, Summer Fridays, stipends for learning and remote work, employee swag.
- **Engineering culture**: 20+ R&D employees, deep technical stack, opportunities to work on AI, ad exchange infrastructure, and creative technology.

## Sources
1. [yieldmo.com](https://yieldmo.com/company/)
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/yieldmo)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/yieldmo)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/yieldmo)

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