Founding Research Engineer
Hybrid (San Francisco)Full-timePosted 8mo ago
About the role
AI research lab building autonomous research infrastructure for quantitative investing. Founding role focused on ML systems and quantitative finance, bridging hypothesis, evaluation, and P&L in an in-person San Francisco setting.
Responsibilities
- Design the research orchestration layer — what to explore, how to evaluate it, what to remember
- Train models that power autonomous research infrastructure
- Develop systems that generate alpha in markets and beyond
- Work at the intersection of ML systems and quantitative finance, closing the loop from hypothesis to P&L
- Potential areas include: research orchestration for exploration velocity, training transformers on proprietary data for signal prediction, backtesting frameworks with regime-aware evaluation, and knowledge systems that compound across sessions
Qualifications
- 3+ years
- Python, Machine Learning
Skills
Required:PythonMachine Learning
Benefits
- Competitive salary + meaningful founding equity
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Event Horizon Labs
We are building the Post-Human Trader.
We’re building the most advanced AI system for making decisions. Our mission is to build a fully autonomous hedge fund that matches the performance of the best portfolio managers on the planet.
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