Founding Member of Technical Staff

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join a small, founding-stage team building AI systems for financial markets. You will take ideas from early exploration through production, working across trading infrastructure, data, and research tools.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Develop and ship projects end to end across the trading technology stack.
• Build and extend data pipelines, trading signals, and research infrastructure.
• Create automated execution systems and tools that help the team move quickly from idea to live experiment.
• Partner 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 software engineering or quantitative development experience, with strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Python or C++ and a degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, or a related field.
• Experience owning a project from ideation through production, with a focus on solving downstream user or business problems.
• Trading, markets, or quantitative experience beyond general application development, such as work at a trading firm, hedge fund, exchange, or markets-focused startup, or serious personal trading projects.
• Strong statistical intuition and comfort working with noisy real-world data.
• Experience using AI-driven development tools and approaches.
• Ability to take initiative and work effectively in an early-stage, ambiguous environment.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. Equity details were not provided.

LOCATION

On-site in Palo Alto, California.