Founding Member of Technical Staff

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.