Founding Member of Technical Staff

About the Role

Join a small, high-performance team building AI systems for financial markets. You will take ideas from early exploration through production, contributing across trading infrastructure, research systems, and market prediction.

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 to develop 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, or comparable experience beyond an early-career profile.

• Strong software engineering skills in Python or C++, with experience taking a project from concept to production.

• A degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, or a related field.

• Experience in trading, markets, quantitative research, or crypto, or substantial personal trading or strategy projects.

• Strong statistical intuition and comfort working with noisy, real-world data.

• Experience applying AI in production products and using AI-driven development tools.

• Ability to work effectively in an ambiguous, cross-functional environment.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in Palo Alto, California, United States. The role requires working on-site six days per week.