Member of Technical Staff, Quantitative Systems

About us

• ATG (Autonomous Technologies Group) is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets.
• Founders: Early GPU cloud (9 figure exit).
• Investors: Garry Tan / YC + Founder of one of the most successful quant funds, BoxGroup (Plaid, Ramp, Stripe), top-tier angels.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core quantitative systems for allocation, risk, and optimization in complex, real-world environments.
• Formulate and analyze multi-objective optimization problems (e.g., risk/return, constraints, transaction and implementation frictions) and turn them into robust, solvable formulations.
• Develop simulation, backtesting, and evaluation frameworks to understand system behavior under varying regimes and stress scenarios.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and product to integrate quantitative logic into reliable, maintainable services and APIs.
• Prototype new approaches quickly, run experiments, and iterate based on empirical results.
• Establish standards for model quality, validation, monitoring, and numerical stability in production systems.
• Document assumptions, constraints, and design rationales so the broader team can build on your work.

Requirements

• Strong quantitative background (e.g., mathematics, physics, computer science, operations research, statistics, or similar).
• Deep expertise in at least one of: optimization (convex/non-convex), stochastic processes, numerical methods, or quantitative finance.
• Experience designing and implementing quantitative or algorithmic decision systems (research + production, not just toy models).
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with scientific/ML tooling (NumPy, JAX/PyTorch, Pandas, etc.); experience with a systems language (C++/Rust/Go) is a plus.
• Ability to reason from first principles, simplify complex objective spaces, and choose the right level of modeling detail for the problem.
• Track record of turning mathematical ideas into clean, reliable, well-tested code that can run in production.
• Comfort working with real-world data (noisy, incomplete, biased) and building pipelines and checks around it.
• Habit of staying current on advances in optimization, quantitative methods, and AI tools—and using those tools (Cursor, Copilot-style assistants, etc.) to increase velocity while keeping code quality high.

Why Join ATG

• We're building a small, elite team. If you're excited by AI, markets, and building from first principles, we’d love to meet you.
• Work on AI with a massive market opportunity
• Early team of repeat founders backed by top investors
• High agency, talent dense, zero bureaucracy