ATG (Autonomous Technologies Group) is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets.
Founders: Early GPU cloud (9 figure exit).
Investors: Garry Tan / YC + Founder of one of the most successful quant funds, BoxGroup (Plaid, Ramp, Stripe), top-tier angels.
We’re looking for a software engineer to help develop, launch, and maintain the first version of the ATG iOS app. This is a zero-to-one role: you’ll own the mobile experience end-to-end, from architecture to polish. Your work will directly shape how users interact with ATG, shaping the future of mobile AI experiences. As a key member of our team, you'll push the boundaries of iOS development, combining technical excellence with design finesse. From pixel-perfect UI to smooth animations and thoughtful micro-interactions, you’ll create seamless, motion-driven experiences that delight users. If you excel in building high-quality, intuitive, and visually stunning apps, this role is for you.
What You’ll Do
Architect and ship our first iOS app—from private beta to App Store release.
Implement core features with fluid UI, high performance, and scalable client infrastructure.
Collaborate closely with the founders, product, and design on prototyping, and product direction.
Build testing pipelines (unit tests, CI/CD) to keep reliability high while moving fast.
Deploy platform-level improvements (real-time syncing, on-device ML, efficient data flow).
Iterate quickly on new iOS experiences that make AI useful, intuitive, and delightful in every user’s pocket.
Prioritize performance, reliability, and responsiveness to deliver best-in-class mobile experiences.
We’re early, fast, and ambitious. Every engineer has a direct line to product decisions and user impact. We optimize for:
User delight — clean, intuitive, responsive experiences.
Speed with quality — ship quickly without cutting corners on reliability.
High impact — focus on features that move the needle for users.
Collaboration — work directly with founders in a flat, high-trust environment.
3+ years of hands-on iOS experience (Swift, UIKit/SwiftUI, Combine, concurrency).
Shipped at least one app to the App Store and evolved it based on real-user feedback.
Comfortable shipping fast while maintaining quality (modular design, unit tests, CI, profiling).
Resourceful: you choose the right tools, work lean, and thrive without heavy scaffolding.
Strong product sense: you care about UX and sweat the details.
Clear communicator—whether debugging, brainstorming, or shifting gears under pressure.
Strong design sensibility and an eye for detail—experience working closely with UI/UX designers to create polished, high-quality mobile experiences.
Expertise in leveraging the latest AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc) to increase productivity & code output while maintaining high code quality, maintainability, and structure.
Experience integrating ML models on-device or in-app.
Built dual-platform experiences (iOS + Android or iOS + Web).
Led iOS architecture: modular features, performance tuning, advanced debugging.
Why Join ATG
We're building a small, elite team. If you're excited by AI, markets, and building from first principles, we’d love to meet you.
Work on AI with a massive market opportunity
Early team of repeat founders backed by top investors
High agency, talent dense, zero bureaucracy
Autonomous is a superintelligent financial advisor at 0% advisory fees.
Today, managing your money means one of two bad options:
DIY your money: You end up with accounts everywhere (401k, IRAs, brokerage, crypto, savings, equity, secondaries). Your spreadsheet is always wrong. You make expensive mistakes because this isn't your full-time job.
Hire a financial advisor: They'll manage your money and charge 1-2% of assets annually. Run that math over multiple decades and you're handing over half your net worth to fees.
Neither path can economically deliver the sophisticated, personalized strategies the ultra-wealthy use to compound wealth: strategic tax-loss harvesting across individual securities, systematic risk management, portfolio-backed borrowing to defer capital gains, access to alternatives, etc.
These aren't secret – they're just economically impossible to deliver at scale through traditional human advisors.
Robos were supposed to fix this, but they were designed in a pre-AI world. In practice they just manage cookie-cutter portfolios. They don’t coordinate across your 401(k), taxable accounts, mortgage, equity, and cash flow, they don’t help with real decisions like job offers, windfalls, or concentrated stock, and they don’t deliver institutional strategies. That’s why, even after a decade plus, the biggest robos are still <$100B AUM while old-school advisors like Raymond James / Edward Jones sit on trillions.
We’re doing for financial advising what Robinhood did for brokerages. Think of it as a full-stack, AI-native wealth strategist that brings billionaire-style playbooks to ordinary investors.
Autonomous is built around a frontier-scale reasoning engine—an AI that perceives global events as they unfold, understanding their deeper implications for markets and and most importantly, how these events will impact your investments.
Salary
$160,000 - $240,000
Location
New York City
Experience
3+ years
Total raised
$15.0M
Last stage
Pre-seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.