AI Software Developer
WorldQuant4 months ago
Yerevan, ArmeniaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve AI-powered applications end-to-end for internal users.
- Translate ambiguous requests into defined solutions, including requirements, user experience, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration.
- Develop agentic and deep-research workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, document search, and other LLM-powered capabilities.
- Work directly with internal users, incorporate feedback, and support feature prioritization and roadmap discussions.
- Define and evaluate measures of feature quality, usefulness, reliability, and adoption.
- Help ensure AI capabilities are useful, trustworthy, scalable, and practical in real-world use.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills and the ability to build reliable, maintainable production systems, preferably in Python.
- Experience taking features from an ambiguous request through technical design, delivery, rollout, and iteration.
- A product-minded approach with the ability to clarify user needs and make pragmatic scope and technical trade-offs.
- Strong analytical skills and an interest in solving complex real-world problems.
- Solid understanding of modern AI systems and practical experience with LLM-powered applications, including retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, document search, and evaluation.
- Familiarity with vector search or vector databases, SQL, and messaging systems.
- Ability to measure feature quality, usefulness, reliability, and adoption.
- Strong English communication skills and the ability to work directly with and support internal users.
- Ability to work independently in a small team, take responsibility for outcomes, and deliver effectively.
- Finance experience is not required.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package that may include annual bonuses and salary increases.
- Flexible start time, parental leave, and a sabbatical after five years of service.
- Possibility of business trips to the United States and other countries.
- Regular team building, competitions, corporate events, and monthly team lunches.
- Medical and life insurance.
- Psychological, legal, and financial support for employees and their relatives.
- Certification, online and offline training in Armenia and abroad, English classes, and professional-development mentoring.
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About WorldQuant
WorldQuant is a privately held quantitative asset management firm founded in 2007 and headquartered in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. It builds proprietary research platforms and trading infrastructure to generate predictive signals and deploy systematic investment strategies across global markets and asset classes for institutional investors. The firm manages over $7 billion in assets under management and operates a network of offices worldwide.