About the Role
Madhive is seeking an AI Code Engineering Lead to make engineering dramatically faster with AI-native practice and tooling. This role involves building and scaling an agentic coding platform where AI generates production code with engineers reviewing rather than writing it. It is a hands-on position focused on shipping acceleration tools and creating reusable building blocks for the organization.
Responsibilities
- Own AI-native engineering practice, the eval harness, reusable AI building blocks, and developer tooling.
- Manage a portfolio of velocity V1s, ensuring integration into the CTO’s organization.
- Facilitate smooth handoffs to the engineering organization.
- Codify successful practices into reusable 'golden path' playbooks and feed learnings back to platform teams.
Requirements
- A builder who clears a staff-engineer bar (10+ years experience) at a strong company.
- History of shipping production code at staff scope.
- Evidence of driving adoption of at least one engineering practice or tool to org-wide scale.
- Expertise in agentic coding tools across the full SDLC.
- Experience building or running an eval harness is essential.
- Grit in ambiguous problems and curiosity about business mechanics.
- Ability to reason rigorously about how AI can inflate output and design against stability risks.
- Hands-on with evaluation-driven development, including precision/recall benchmarks, human review queues, and audit trails.
Skills
- AI coding agents
- Eval/observability frameworks
- CI/CD
- Testing
- Evaluation-driven development
Location
- New York City, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years experience
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000-$225,000
About the Company
- Madhive is the leading independent and fully customizable operating system built to help local media professionals build profitable, differentiated, and efficient businesses.
- Madhive empowers sales teams to extend their reach into streaming and connects local advertisers with the communities they serve.
- Madhive’s platform provides the unique ability to reach local audiences at national scale, with premium supply partnerships and end-to-end tools for planning, targeting, and measuring full-funnel campaign outcomes.
- Powering campaigns for over 30,000 small and medium businesses per day, Madhive is driving the evolution of local media.
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome diversity in education, culture, opinions, race, ethnicity, gender identity, veteran status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
