Lead Data Architect

Lead Data Architect / Engineer

Location: New York, NY (Onsite preferred; Remote considered for top talent)
Stage: Early-stage AI startup | Backed by top-tier investors
Team: Elite AI researchers and engineering talent from leading hedge funds and tech labs
Growth: Scaling rapidly

About Us

We're building next-generation AI systems designed to learn directly from numerical and time-series data. Our mission is simple yet ambitious:
Create AI you can trust to make financial decisions.

The vision:

• Develop superhuman investing systems
• Deliver AI-powered tools for traders, funds, and institutions

Why Join Us?

• Define the data foundation for cutting-edge AI in finance
• Greenfield architecture - build systems from scratch
• Work alongside world-class AI researchers and engineers

Your Mission

As Lead Data Architect, you'll own the entire data platform:

• Architect scalable systems for multi-asset market data
• Build robust ingestion pipelines for real-time and historical feeds
• Ensure data quality, lineage, and reproducibility for model training
• Collaborate with AI researchers to deliver high-quality datasets
• Optimize infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost

Ideal Background

• Senior data engineer or architect with deep experience in time-series data
• Proven track record building large-scale data systems
• Strong engineering skills - end-to-end building and delivery
• Background in financial data, distributed systems, and ML pipelines preferred
• Experience at funds, market makers, big-tech AI teams, or top AI labs
• Excellent Academic pedigree - Ph.D.s, top CS (or relevant) programs, olympiad or other coding competition winners
• Consistent/continuous professional background - no short-lived stays or contract positions
• Citizen or GC holder

Why Now?

• Early traction: proprietary models outperform nearly all traders
• Recognition and support from leading figures in tech and finance
• Backed by strong investors; next large funding round imminent
• Opportunity to own architecture for one of AI's hardest problems - financial markets

Ready to build the future of financial AI?
Apply now or reach out directly for a confidential conversation.