Poesis
Asset management
EngineeringLead,Agents
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“Engineering Lead, Agents at Poesis. Skills: Agent engineering, AI, Machine learning, Python, SQL. Provide technical leadership across the agent platform. Design and build early versions of agent-driven products and internal systems”
What You'll Achieve.
Outperform legacy managers; Improved alpha discovery; Higher quality decision-making; Intelligent risk management; Directly impacts investment decisions and portfolio performance
Industry & Context.
Current legal authorization to work in the US, Continuing work visa sponsorship available for full-time employees
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years building software in an agentic startup, frontier AI lab, a leading hedge fund, a big tech platform team, or similar, Computer Science Degree, Proficiency in Python and SQL, Experience going deep into agentic AI with experience building and shipping multi-agent systems in production
Nice to Have
TypeScript, Go, Rust, Knowledge of the modern AI stack (LLMs, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, and retrieval)
What You'll Do.
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
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with Poesis leaders to set the vision and execute the development roadmap; Collaborative
Full Job Description
ABOUT POESIS Asset management is the largest industry not yet rebuilt around AI—Poesis is leading that future. We are an AI-native investment manager building a system of self-improving agents to predict market movements and outperform legacy managers. We’re building systems that discover alpha, manage risk, and compound intelligence over time, led by founders who spent their careers managing institutional capital and building enterprise-level AI. This is frontier research with immediate real-world validation where your work directly impacts investment decisions and portfolio performance. We're a new breed of investment firm, and we're looking for world-class talent to shape the path forward together. ABOUT THE ROLE We are pioneering a new foundation model for investing—by analyzing more data at greater scale, machine learning opens the door to improved alpha discovery, higher quality decision-making and intelligent risk management. AI agents are a core part of how we make this a reality. We're looking for an experienced software engineer to lead our agent engineering efforts. As Engineering Lead, you'll bring strong technical judgment and deep curiosity about what frontier models and harnesses make possible, translating emerging capabilities into production systems. You'll collaborate with Poesis leaders to set the vision and execute the development roadmap, with a unique opportunity to define the architecture that shapes how these systems are built and scaled across the organization. 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 REQUIRED COMPETENCIES - 3+ years building software in an agentic startup, frontier AI lab, a leading hedge fund, a big tech platform team, or similar - Strong familiarity with the modern AI stack (LLMs, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, and retrieval); proficien
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