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Tomorrow, we're building the full stack: real-time chart intelligence, autonomous research agents, and portfolio-aware execution. We're turning what institutional desks spend millions on into a conversation anyone can have. We're live, growing fast, and the hardest technical problems are still ahead of us.\n\nOur tech stack spans real-time market data ingestion (Kafka + TimescaleDB processing millions of ticks/day), AI/ML infrastructure (custom LLM orchestration + quant computation engines), a React/Next.js web platform, and native mobile apps - all built for sub-100ms latency because in trading, milliseconds matter.\n\nWe are building the engineering team that will scale this from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of concurrent traders.\n\nWhy this Role exists\n\nTRADL's core moat is the intelligence layer - the system that takes a natural language trading query, understands intent, decomposes it into quantitative operations, generates executable Python code, and returns mathematically precise results against live market data. Today this works. But it needs to work 100x better: faster inference, richer reasoning chains, multi-step agent workflows, and eventually autonomous execution.\n\nThe Founding AI Engineer owns the entire AI/ML stack and is the technical co-architect alongside our CTO.\n\nWhat You'll Own\n\nLLM Orchestration: Own the pipeline converting natural language → executable quant code. Architect self-hosted models, fine-tuning, and hybrid routing\nHallucination Elimination: Build the verification layer ensuring every AI result is mathematically deterministic. Our deepest IP.\nAI-Charts Engine: Real-time AI overlays - automated pattern recognition, predictive annotations, support/resistance. Scale from static to streaming intelligence.\nFundAgent: Design the autonomous trading agent: multi-step reasoning, portfolio-aware decisions, risk-bounded execution.\nModel Infrastructure: GPU compute strategy, model versioning, A/B testing, latency optimization (Research → Production Pipeline: Turn academic research into production features. Bridge the Jupyter notebook → live market execution gap.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n\n5-8 years in ML/AI engineering with at least 2 years working with LLMs in production (actual deployed systems handling real user queries).\nDeep understanding of LLM internals: tokenization, attention mechanisms, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, function calling, and code generation patterns.\nProduction experience with model serving: latency optimization, batching strategies, model routing, and cost management across multiple LLM providers.\nStrong Python: You'll be writing the code that generates code. 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