Quick overview
Job description
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 research through production and help build the infrastructure and tools that make market experiments possible.
What You'll Do
Own projects end to end, from ideation and implementation through production deployment.
Build and extend data pipelines, trading signals, and research infrastructure.
Develop automated execution systems and tools that help the team move quickly from ideas to live experiments.
Work with quantitative and AI researchers on approaches to market prediction.
Contribute across trading infrastructure, machine learning, and security as team needs evolve.
What We're Looking For
One to five years of full-time experience as a software engineer or quantitative developer.
A degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, or a related field.
Strong software engineering skills in Python or C++.
Demonstrated ownership of a project built and shipped from idea to production, including responsibility for its real-world application.
Background in areas such as quantitative development, trading systems, data infrastructure, systematic research, high-frequency trading, crypto, or fintech.
Strong statistical intuition and comfort working with noisy real-world data.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools and the ability to work effectively in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
Experience beyond narrowly scoped, single-component engineering work.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary range: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in Palo Alto, California.