Founding Member of Technical Staff, Markets

About the Role

Join a small engineering team building AI-driven systems for financial markets. In this founding-level role, you will take ideas from initial exploration through production and help develop the software, data, and trading infrastructure that supports rapid research and experimentation.

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, as well as create new systems where needed.

• Develop automated execution systems and tools that help the team move quickly from an idea to a live experiment.

• Work closely with quantitative and AI researchers on approaches to market prediction.

• Contribute across trading and high-frequency trading infrastructure, security, and machine learning.

What We're Looking For

• Typically 1 to 5 years of full-time experience as a software engineer or quantitative developer, with meaningful real-world exposure and demonstrated ownership.

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

• Strong software engineering skills in Python or C++ and a record of taking a project from concept to production.

• Experience in quantitative development, trading systems, data infrastructure, systematic research, high-frequency trading, crypto, or fintech.

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

• Experience using AI-driven development tools and the ability to work across domains in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

• Quantitative trading experience, including internships, is relevant.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual salary range: $200,000 to $300,000. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in Palo Alto, California, six days per week.