Founding AI Engineer

Overview

AdBanana — Building the AI Infrastructure Layer for Visual Commerce
Bangalore / Hybrid / Extreme Ownership

We are not hiring an employee.
We are looking for the engineer who wants to help build one of the defining AI companies of this decade.
AdBanana is building AI infrastructure for commerce creativity:

• AI-generated ad creatives
• AI catalog generation
• AI fashion/editorial photoshoots
• campaign generation
• visual commerce automation
• SKU-scale creative refresh systems
• AI-native marketing workflows We believe the global commerce visual production industry — catalog shoots, campaign shoots, ad creatives, adaptation work, design pipelines, creative ops — is about to be rewritten by AI. Not improved. Rewritten. And we want to build one of the companies that defines this shift.

The Context
Today:

• brands spend crores every year on creative production,
• agencies and design teams struggle with scale,
• performance marketers wait days or weeks for creatives,
• commerce teams reuse stale catalog images,
• and ad fatigue destroys ROAS. Meanwhile AI models are becoming exponentially more powerful every few months. We are building the operating system between: commerce catalogs → AI generation → performance marketing → creative iteration at scale. This is not another wrapper. This is a systems + workflow + infra company built around one of the largest shifts happening in software globally.

Why This Role Is Different
Most engineering jobs:

• optimize existing systems,
• maintain old architecture,
• attend meetings,
• move Jira tickets,
• and spend years inside a hierarchy. This role is the opposite. You will operate almost like a technical co-founder. You will:
• architect systems,
• ship at extreme speed,
• leverage AI aggressively,
• make product decisions,
• own infrastructure,
• influence GTM,
• build internal tooling,
• experiment constantly,
• and directly shape the future of the company. There are no layers here. No bureaucracy. No “this is not my responsibility.” Only speed, ownership, intelligence, execution, and ambition.

What We’re Looking For
We are looking for an unusually high-agency engineer.
Someone who:

• ships insanely fast,
• learns independently,
• uses AI as a force multiplier,
• can build across frontend/backend/infrastructure,
• understands product intuitively,
• and thrives in ambiguity instead of fearing it. You should be comfortable:
• building production systems yourself,
• debugging infrastructure at 2am,
• experimenting with new models weekly,
• talking to customers,
• improving UX,
• optimizing latency,
• designing scalable systems,
• and figuring things out without waiting for instructions. You do not need to know everything already. But you must have the ability to learn anything extremely quickly.

Technical Environment
You may work across:

• AI image/video generation workflows
• large-scale generation pipelines
• realtime systems
• GPU/model orchestration
• frontend product experiences
• performance optimization
• automation systems
• creative tooling
• commerce integrations
• Meta ecosystem integrations
• distributed job systems
• prompt architecture
• internal AI tooling
• agentic workflows
• infrastructure scaling We care more about:
• speed,
• intelligence,
• product instinct,
• adaptability,
• and execution quality than specific frameworks.

Who Should Apply
This role is for people who:

• are obsessed with building,
• cannot tolerate mediocrity,
• think faster than their environment,
• want disproportionate ownership,
• and want to build something historically meaningful. This is NOT for people optimizing for:
• comfort,
• work-life balance,
• predictable structure,
• or slow incremental careers. This is for builders who want to compress 10 years of career growth into 2–3 years.

The Opportunity
AI is creating one of the largest platform shifts since mobile.
The companies built in the next few years around:

• generative media,
• commerce AI,
• creative infrastructure,
• and automated marketing systems could become enormously valuable. The early team building these companies will not have normal careers. If AdBanana succeeds at the scale we believe it can, the people who build it early will create:
• massive leverage,
• massive responsibility,
• and potentially life-changing financial upside. We are looking for someone who understands that joining the right company early can matter more than optimizing salary today.

What Winning Looks Like
Within 12–24 months, you could become:

• the core technical brain of the company,
• Head of Engineering,
• VP Engineering,
• or technical co-founder–level leadership internally. You will have direct influence over:
• architecture,
• product direction,
• AI strategy,
• hiring,
• culture,
• velocity,
• and company trajectory.

About the Founder
The company was started by a non-technical founder who aggressively used AI tools to build and ship the first versions of the product from scratch.
We care deeply about:

• velocity,
• product intuition,
• obsession,
• customer impact,
• and relentless execution. If you are someone who has been waiting for an opportunity where: your output matters more than your résumé,
this may be the most important role you ever take.

To Apply
Send:

• GitHub / portfolio / anything you’ve built
• LinkedIn
• A short note answering: “What is the hardest thing you’ve built completely on your own?”