Member of Technical Staff | Production & Trading Platform

Poesis•Menlo Park, CA

4d•$180,000 - $280,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Poesis is an AI-native investment firm running autonomous agents to predict markets, construct portfolios, and manage risk. As a Member of Technical Staff on the Production & Trading Platform, you will build the systems that connect investment strategies to markets, spanning financial data and signal generation through order execution, trade reconciliation, and monitoring. You will help establish reliable production systems that translate AI-driven decisions into live trading.

Requirements

Deep, hands-on experience building production trading and order pipeline systems in a quantitative investment firm, hedge fund, asset manager, or similar environment.
Extensive experience with financial data pipelines, signal generation, portfolio construction, order management, or trade lifecycle infrastructure, including institutional trading platforms or broker connectivity.
Experience designing and operating reliable, scalable production systems and automated workflows.
Current legal authorization to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Experience building production software from the ground up at an early-stage investment firm.
Experience building, evaluating, and refining LLM agents that perform real work in production.

Responsibilities

Build production infrastructure connecting AI-driven investment decisions to live financial markets, from data and signals through trading.
Solve engineering challenges related to reliability, scalability, and precision in systems that affect investment outcomes.
Build AI agents to automate workflows, validate pipeline operations and outputs, and reduce complexity and manual processes.
Own the trading day end-to-end, including alerting, incident response, and runbooks.
Provide trading coverage alongside the trader.