Senior AI & Trading Engineer - Remote Opportunity

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior AI & Trading Engineer to join our innovative team at Galaxy, a leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure. This remote position allows you to work at the forefront of finance and artificial intelligence, contributing to the development of our advanced AI-driven trading platform.

What You'll Do

• Build and evolve core components of an AI-enabled systematic trading platform.
• Develop and maintain robust backtesting and simulation infrastructure, accounting for transaction costs, slippage, and market impact.
• Partner closely with quantitative researchers and traders to productionize trading strategies and models.
• Design tools and workflows that significantly improve research speed, reliability, and reproducibility.
• Apply machine learning techniques to financial time-series data, including feature engineering, model training, and evaluation.
• Implement monitoring, post-trade analytics, and performance attribution to support continuous improvement.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, code reviews, and mentorship.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or quantitative systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, plus experience with C++, Rust, or Java.
• Hands-on experience with backtesting frameworks, research platforms, or trading systems used in real-world decision-making.
• Solid understanding of machine learning applied to noisy, non-stationary time-series data.
• Familiarity with systematic trading concepts: signal research, execution, portfolio construction, and risk management.
• Experience building and operating production-grade systems.

Nice to Have

• Background as a quant developer or research engineer in a systematic trading environment.
• Knowledge of market microstructure, order types, and transaction cost modeling.
• Experience with distributed systems, GPUs, or large-scale ML pipelines.
• Advanced degree in CS, Math, Statistics, Physics, or a related field.

What We Offer

• Work on core, high-impact systems at the heart of a trading platform.
• High ownership and autonomy in a small, senior technical team.
• Direct influence on both research velocity and live trading outcomes.
• Competitive compensation and long-term growth opportunities.
• Equity incentives as part of the total compensation package.