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Founding Member of Technical Staff - AI Research & Quantitative Trading

Simplify • United State
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Build systems, signals, and infrastructure for an AI research lab and quantitative hedge fund in Palo Alto. Own production software end to end — from design through deployment — spanning data pipelines, distributed systems, and AI agent products. Requires strong systems judgment, proven shipping ability, and exceptional proficiency with AI coding agents.

Key Highlights
$180–250k base salary with generous equity and hedge fund bonus upside
Early-stage company with $29M seed round led by Ribbit Capital
In person in Palo Alto, 5 days/week — no years-of-experience requirement, bar is what you've shipped
Work spans research, systems, and product with full ownership end to end
H-1B sponsorship available
Key Responsibilities
Build the systems that ingest and process information for markets
Build and operate the infrastructure behind research and execution
Build products and agents that help traders and researchers understand and act on markets
Design data pipelines for alpha generation and debug distributed systems
Build evaluation frameworks and test research ideas with rigor
Turn research and internal workflows into systems that run autonomously with agents
Own substantial pieces of work end to end — from design through deployment and operation
Help decide what gets built, how it gets built, and how the team knows it works
Technical Skills Required
Distributed Systems Data Infrastructure Applied AI and Agent Systems
Benefits & Perks
$180–250k base salary
Generous equity
Hedge fund bonus upside
H-1B sponsorship available
Nice to Have
Experience with financial systems, real-time data, research tooling, or multi-agent systems
Experience building products in close contact with demanding users
Genuine curiosity about markets and how research, trading, and technology fit together
A habit of fixing what's slow, manual, or broken without being asked

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. $180–250k 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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