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.