Poesis

Engineering Lead, Agents

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3 months ago

Base Salary

$180k - $280k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership across the agent platform.
  • Design and build early versions of agent-driven products and internal systems.
  • Establish patterns and infrastructure for reliable agent deployment.
  • Collaborate with company leaders to set the vision and execute the development roadmap.
  • Define architecture for building and scaling agent systems across the organization.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of software development experience in an agentic startup, frontier AI lab, leading hedge fund, big tech team, or similar environment.
  • Strong familiarity with LLMs, tool use, orchestration, and evaluation.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL; TypeScript, Go, or Rust experience is a bonus.
  • Experience designing, building, and deploying multi-agent systems in production.
  • Expertise in agent orchestration, tool calling, context window management, and agent grounding.
  • Hands-on experience anticipating failure modes and using observability and evaluation for agent systems.
  • Basic understanding of financial markets and personal or professional interest in investing.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Familiarity with agent safety, sandboxing, and guardrail design is preferred.
  • Experience partnering with researchers or quantitative developers is preferred.
  • Experience with unstructured financial data and financial data providers such as Bloomberg, CapitalIQ, and Refinitiv is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with 3 days per week onsite in Menlo Park, California
  • Relocation allowance available
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Catered lunches at the Menlo Park office
  • Commuter benefits
  • Current US work authorization required; continuing work visa sponsorship available for full-time employees
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About Poesis

1-10 employees

Whoever builds the leading intelligence for finance will create far more than returns. Poesis is the AI-native asset manager running autonomous agents that predict markets, construct portfolios, and manage risk. Live capital is the training ground for an intelligence that compounds with every signal.

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