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Founding Member of Technical Staff (Quantitative Developer)

Simplify • United State
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Join an early-stage AI research lab and trading firm in Palo Alto to build systems for live markets. You will develop market data pipelines, trading signals, and production infrastructure for an internal hedge fund. Requires exceptional software engineering skills in Python or C++ and a deep personal interest in financial markets.

Key Highlights
Founding team role with significant ownership and fund economics upside
Work across the entire stack from research prototypes to production trading systems
Collaborate with former xAI, Citadel talent and IMO medalists
Key Responsibilities
Build pipelines for market, alternative, and real-time data
Research, build, and evaluate trading signals
Develop research and backtesting infrastructure
Build tooling to move ideas from notebooks to live experiments quickly
Turn research prototypes into reliable production systems
Work with quantitative and AI researchers on market prediction approaches
Own and maintain critical parts of the trading stack
Technical Skills Required
Python C++
Benefits & Perks
$200–350K base salary
Fund economics upside
H-1B sponsorship available
Nice to Have
Internship experience at quantitative trading firms like IMC, Citadel, Jane Street, HRT, Optiver, or SIG
Experience building independent trading systems, strategies, or backtesters
Low-latency C++, real-time data, exchange connectivity, or performance-engineering experience
Quantitative research completed during schooling
Founding or early-stage independent project experience
Strong record in math, programming, or trading competitions

Job Description

About the role

Most job posts are designed to collect as many applications as possible.

This is not one of them.

At Simplify, we work directly with startup founders to help them hire for high-priority roles.

We’re partnering with an AI research lab and trading firm in Palo Alto to hire Founding Members of Technical Staff — exceptional early-career engineers and quantitative developers who want to build the systems, signals, and infrastructure behind a new trading firm. $200–350K base, and they’re hiring multiple engineers now.

About the company

One-liner: Building intelligence systems for live markets — and deploying them first through its own quantitative hedge fund

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