Kalpa Group

AI Infrastructure Engineer

New York, New York · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$250k-$500kDetected 39 days ago

RustC++Machine LearningResearch

About the role

Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer | Systematic Trading | New York The buy side is entering one of the most significant technology shifts it has experienced in decades.
AI is changing how investment research is conducted, how signals are discovered, and how firms compete.
The most sophisticated systematic trading firms are beginning to rebuild their research platforms around that future - we're partnered with one of them.

You'll build the systems and infrastructure that make all of this possible - partnering closely with researchers, shaping the technical agenda, and owning the platform that underpins the research lifecycle.

The environment spans large-scale reinforcement learning, agentic research workflows, GPU-native simulation, advanced machine learning systems, and the training and inference infrastructure that supports them at scale.

scaling limits, performance bottlenecks, distributed compute, optimisation under real-world constraints, and infrastructure where efficiency directly impacts research capability and trading performance.
You'll work alongside people from elite quant firms, frontier AI labs, advanced HPC environments, and deeply technical engineering teams.
The culture is highly technical, low bureaucracy, and built around autonomy, speed, and first-principles thinking.
Engineers work closely with researchers, influence core architectural decisions, and operate in an environment where technical quality matters more than hierarchy or process.
Compensation is top of market, with meaningful upside tied to performance.
Very few firms are genuinely positioned to help define what AI-native quantitative research will look like over the next decade.
This is one of them.

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