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.
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