Founding Member of Technical Staff
- Palo Alto, CA, United States
$200,000 to $300,000 USD / year
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- Pay
- $200,000 to $300,000 USD / year
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
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.
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Skills
- Team building
- Financial markets
- Research
- Machine learning
- Python
- C++
- Computer science
- Statistics