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About the Role
Join a small, high-performance team building AI-powered systems for financial markets. In this founding-level role, you will take ideas from initial exploration through production and help shape trading, research, and engineering infrastructure.
What You'll Do
Take projects from ideation through implementation and production across the trading stack.
Build and extend data pipelines, trading signals, and research infrastructure.
Develop automated execution systems and tools that enable rapid experimentation.
Work with quantitative and AI researchers on new approaches to market prediction.
Contribute across trading infrastructure, security, and machine learning.
What We're Looking For
One to five years of full-time experience as a software engineer or quantitative developer.
Software engineering proficiency in Python or C++, with experience building and shipping projects end to end.
Machine learning experience through an internship or full-time role, ideally applying technical work to production products and downstream problems.
Background in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or physics, with strong statistical intuition and comfort working with noisy real-world data.
Knowledge of markets or trading, such as experience at a trading firm, hedge fund, exchange, or trading startup, or substantial personal trading or strategy projects.
Experience with AI-driven development and the ability to work effectively in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in Palo Alto, California.
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