Founding Member of Technical Staff

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a small, high-performance team building AI-powered systems for financial markets. In this founding-level role, you will take ideas from initial exploration through production and help shape trading, research, and engineering infrastructure. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Take projects from ideation through implementation and production across the trading stack. - Build and extend data pipelines, trading signals, and research infrastructure. - Develop automated execution systems and tools that enable rapid experimentation. - Work with quantitative and AI researchers on new approaches to market prediction. - Contribute across trading infrastructure, security, and machine learning. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - One to five years of full-time experience as a software engineer or quantitative developer. - Software engineering proficiency in Python or C++, with experience building and shipping projects end to end. - Machine learning experience through an internship or full-time role, ideally applying technical work to production products and downstream problems. - Background in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or physics, with strong statistical intuition and comfort working with noisy real-world data. - Knowledge of markets or trading, such as experience at a trading firm, hedge fund, exchange, or trading startup, or substantial personal trading or strategy projects. - Experience with AI-driven development and the ability to work effectively in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary is $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in Palo Alto, California.