Founding Engineer, Markets (AI Trading Startup)

An early-stage AI company applying machine learning to financial markets is hiring a founding engineer. The team is tiny and high-performing, and the work runs from raw idea to production with real trading traction behind it.

Scope

Carry projects from concept through production throughout the trading stack

Extend current systems or build new ones for ingesting data, generating trading signals and supporting research

Create tooling and automated order-execution systems that shorten the path from hypothesis to live experiment

Partner with the quant and AI research staff as they explore fresh methods of forecasting markets

Cover many areas, spanning trading, low-latency systems, security and machine learning, since a founding team faces wide-ranging problems

About you

One to five years as a software engineer or quant developer, with exceptional Python or C++ skills

Degree in computer science, math, statistics or physics

Has shipped at least one project end to end as its owner

Intense interest in financial markets and comfort with ambiguity

Statistical intuition and ease with noisy real-world data

Experience in quant development, trading systems, data infrastructure, HFT, crypto or fintech is valued, along with AI-driven development habits

On-site in the South Bay Area, with a demanding in-office schedule of six days a week. Visa transfers and new sponsorships are both considered.