About the role
What You’ll Do
- Build agentic workflows for investment research, data analysis, and alpha discovery
- Design and run evaluations for AI agents, including reliability, reasoning quality, and task-completion benchmarks
- Deploy AI systems into production workflows used by internal teams and institutional investors
- Improve agent performance through prompt design, tool use, retrieval, memory, orchestration, and feedback loops
- Work closely with quant researchers and infrastructure engineers to turn research workflows into robust AI-powered systems
What We’re Looking For
- 2-3 years of experience in a tech startup, AI lab, or big tech environment
- Strong software engineering skills and experience shipping production AI systems
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, agents, evaluations, RAG, tool-calling, or AI workflow orchestration
- Master’s degree in computer science, AI, machine learning, engineering, or a related technical field
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate in a fast-moving early-stage environment
About KelAI
The AI Quant: Autonomous Alpha Engine for Funds and Traders.
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Job details
Salary
$130,000 - $215,000
Location
New York, NY
Experience
3+ years
Funding
Total raised
$5M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
01
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
02
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
03
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.