KelAI · New York, NY, US · In-office · Posted 1mo ago
$130k - $215k
The AI Quant: Autonomous Alpha Engine for Funds and Traders.
What You’ll Do
• Build agentic workflows for investment research, data analysis, and alpha discovery • Design and run evaluations for AI agents, including reliability, reasoning quality, and task-completion benchmarks • Deploy AI systems into production workflows used by internal teams and institutional investors • Improve agent performance through prompt design, tool use, retrieval, memory, orchestration, and feedback loops • Work closely with quant researchers and infrastructure engineers to turn research workflows into robust AI-powered systems
What We’re Looking For
• 2-3 years of experience in a tech startup, AI lab, or big tech environment • Strong software engineering skills and experience shipping production AI systems • Hands-on experience with LLMs, agents, evaluations, RAG, tool-calling, or AI workflow orchestration • Master’s degree in computer science, AI, machine learning, engineering, or a related technical field • Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate in a fast-moving early-stage environment