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Founding Member of Technical Staff, Markets

$200k - $300k
Full-time

True Talent Solutions Partners

About the Role

Join a small, early-stage team building AI-driven technology for financial markets. In this founding-level engineering role, you will own projects from initial idea through production and help develop the systems that support market research, prediction, and trading.

What You'll Do

  • Take projects from ideation through implementation and production across the trading technology stack.

  • Build and extend data pipelines, trading signals, and research infrastructure, or 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 with quantitative and AI researchers on new 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 experience as a software engineer or quantitative developer.

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

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

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

  • Strong statistical intuition, comfort working with noisy real-world data, and experience using AI-driven development tools.

  • Experience in a quantitative trading internship is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in Palo Alto, California. The role requires working on-site six days per week.

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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