Senior / Staff Software Engineer - AI Core Systems

About

An NYC multi-strategy hedge fund is standing up a brand-new central AI engineering team. First hires. You'd be building the actual production systems, not running POCs.

What you'd do

• Build internal AI tooling on top of on-prem data.
• Orchestration, vector search and RAG into private datasets.
• Wire up secure interfaces to OpenAI and Anthropic APIs.
• Work with the Head of AI Engineering and stakeholders across investment, compliance and ops.

Background that fits

• 4+ years of building backend systems.
• Strong Python plus a solid second language (Java or C++).
• Linux.
• GCP or AWS with things you've actually run in production.

Background is open. Startup or mid-size where you've stood systems up yourself plays well. Fund experience is helpful but not required. Interest in AI matters more than a deep AI resume.