Lead Software Engineer
Numerai, Inc. operates Numerai, a live data-science and AI platform where participants build stock-market prediction models, optionally stake NMR, and contribute to a meta-model used by Numerai’s quantitative hedge fund.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Numerai, Inc.
Numerai provides free, obfuscated financial datasets and machine-learning tournaments. Participant predictions are scored over time; staked predictions can earn or burn NMR and are combined into a stake-weighted Meta Model used by Numerai’s institutional global equity market-neutral hedge fund. The company also operates Numerai Signals and Numerai Crypto.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the technical surface across data ingestion quantitative research and live trading systems. You will set engineering standards review designs remove unnecessary complexity and make build-versus-buy decisions. You will be accountable for system reliability and work with leadership on technical strategy compute allocation and platform support for research.
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering experience at top-tier quantitative trading firms
- Production ownership of research or trading infrastructure
- Deep systems knowledge across infrastructure ML CI/CD and ETL
- First-principles systems engineering
- Fluency in Python
- Comfort with systems languages
- Track record of designing maintainable systems
- Excellent written communication
- Extreme ownership
- Strong judgment about technical scope
Responsibilities
- Own data research and trading platforms
- Set and raise engineering standards
- Review designs and remove unnecessary complexity
- Make build-versus-buy decisions
- Ensure the reliability of live trading systems
- Define technical strategy and compute allocation
- Support quantitative research platforms
- Write design documents specifications and post-mortems
Benefits
- Healthcare benefits
- Work-from-home flexibility
- YMCA membership
- Significant equity