Poesis

FinTech

MachineLearningEngineer

$200–280k Menlo Park, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Machine Learning Engineer at Poesis. Skills: Machine Learning, AI, Agent development, Production deployment. Implement and iterate on machine learning models. Implement and iterate on signals”

Industry & Context.

FinTech

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years experience Machine Learning Engineer, Python and SQL skills, Experience developing, evaluating and deploying ML models in production, Success building reproducible research workflows, BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to Have

Experience developing ML and AI systems using financial, fundamental, alternative, or time-series datasets, Familiarity with quantitative investing, portfolio construction, or risk management, Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow, AI workflows for parsing financial documents

What You'll Do.

Implement and iterate on machine learning models

Implement and iterate on signals

Implement and iterate on research ideas

Run experiments to evaluate model performance

Run experiments to evaluate agent performance

Run experiments to evaluate investment impact

Build reproducible workflows for feature generation

Build reproducible workflows for training

Build reproducible workflows for validation

Build reproducible workflows for evaluation

Work with financial datasets

Work with fundamental datasets

Work with alternative datasets

Identify predictive signals

Improve model performance

Full Job Description

ABOUT POESIS Whoever builds the leading intelligence for finance will create far more than returns. Poesis is the AI-native investment firm running autonomous agents that predict markets, construct portfolios, and manage risk. Our founders managed institutional capital at Capital Group ($3T AUM) and led enterprise ML at Goldman Sachs and Amazon. We're building a new type of firm, where live capital is the training ground for an intelligence that compounds with every signal. ABOUT THE ROLE At Poesis, machine learning and artificial intelligence open the door to improved alpha discovery, higher quality decision-making and intelligent risk management. We're looking for an exceptional Machine Learning Engineer to help build the systems that make this possible. In this role, you'll develop models, signals and evaluation frameworks that power investment decision-making across the platform. You'll work across the full machine learning lifecycle, from experimentation and model and agent development to deployment and iteration, with significant ownership over both research and production outcomes. RESPONSIBILITIES - Rapidly implement and iterate on machine learning models, signals and research ideas - Design and run experiments to evaluate and improve model and agent performance and investment impact - Build reproducible workflows for feature generation, training, validation and evaluation - Work with large-scale financial, fundamental and alternative datasets to identify predictive signals and improve model performance REQUIRED COMPETENCIES - 5+ years experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, or related role - Prior experience at a frontier AI lab, agentic startup, leading hedge fund, big tech company, or similar - Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience working with large-scale datasets - Experience developing, evaluating and deploying machine learning models in production environments - Success building reproducible research workflows and experimentation frameworks

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