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Founding Software Engineer

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-17 San Francisco Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market US$12,500–US$20,833/mo

About the Company

AI-native hedge fund using agents to automate quant research-at scale We operate a platform that automates quantitative research - generating hypotheses, backtesting strategies, and analyzing results. Hundreds of agents run in parallel and learn from what the others discovered. We are building a fund that scales on agents, not researchers. Technology, Information and Internet Specialties: quantitative research automation, algorithmic trading, backtesting, multi-agent AI, hedge fund technology

Responsibilities

  • ● Event Horizon Labs - San Francisco (in-person)
  • ● The next breakthrough isn't a better model - it's infrastructure for autonomous problem-solving. Markets are the first domain because feedback is immediate, signal is verifiable, and outcomes are directly monetizable. What we're building doesn't stop at markets.
  • ● Team from Citadel, Jump Trading, Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley.
  • ● You build the platform everything runs on. Design the orchestration layer that dispatches parallel research sessions, the data pipelines that feed them, the observability that monitors them, and the trading systems that act on what they find. Distributed systems meets autonomous AI infrastructure.
  • ● You might work on
  • ● Compute scheduling and resource allocation across hundreds of agents
  • ● Streaming data pipelines for real-time market ingestion
  • ● Agent observability, experiment tracking, and reproducibility at scale
  • ● Low-latency trading system design and optimization
  • ● Stack: Python, Go, Kubernetes, streaming data, low-latency systems
  • ● Comp: Competitive salary + meaningful founding equity