Job description
Join a small, venture-backed AI startup building prediction engines for markets, deployed through an internal hedge fund. You will work across the full trading stack with quant and AI researchers.
What you'll do
- Take projects from idea to production across the trading stack
- Build and extend data pipelines, trading signals, and research infrastructure
- Develop automated execution systems and tooling for fast idea-to-live-experiment loops
- Work directly with quant and AI researchers on market prediction
- Contribute across high-frequency trading infrastructure, security, and ML
Compensation
$200,000 to $300,000 base, higher for exceptional candidates, plus generous equity and a discretionary bonus.
Location
On-site in Palo Alto, five days a week. Open to visa transfers and new sponsorship (H-1B, TN).
Requirements
- 1 to 5 years full-time as a software engineer or quant developer (exceptional new grads considered)
- Exceptional Python and/or C++, with backend strength
- Has built and shipped a project end to end as the owner
- Degree in computer science, math, statistics, or physics
- HFT or quant trading background a plus