Founding Research Engineer
Founding Research Engineer at Event Horizon Labs — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Event Horizon Labs
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 150000–200000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
Founding Research Engineer
Event Horizon Labs — San Francisco (in-person)
We're a small, tight-knit team building autonomous research infrastructure from scratch. The orchestrator, the agents, the compounding knowledge base are already discovering profitable strategies and scaling with each new model release. These are founding roles with competitive salary and equity.
The next breakthrough isn't a better model — it's infrastructure for autonomous problem-solving. Markets are the first domain because feedback is immediate, signal is verifiable, and outcomes are directly monetizable. What we're building doesn't stop at markets.
Team from Citadel, Jump Trading, Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley.
You build the system that generates alpha. Design the research orchestration layer — what to explore, how to evaluate it, what to remember — and train the models that power it. You'll work at the intersection of ML systems and quantitative finance, closing the loop from hypothesis to P&L.
You might work on
Research orchestration optimized for maximum exploration velocity
Training small transformers on proprietary data for signal prediction
Backtesting frameworks with regime-aware evaluation
Knowledge systems that compound across thousands of sessions
Details
Stack: Python, PyTorch, proprietary feature discovery, model fitting and backtesting infra
Location: San Francisco (in-person)
Comp: Competitive salary + meaningful founding equity