19h ago

Reinforcement Learning Engineer

New York

$400k-$800k / year

full-timeseniorfinance

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll own and ship an RL-driven trading agent using real capital to increase trading volume in a memecoin ecosystem. You'll take end-to-end ownership as the sole RL expert, from data through deployment. This role offers unmatched ownership and exposure to systems at crypto scale.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Own and ship an RL-driven trading agent using real capital
  • Design reward functions and policies with downside risk constraints
  • Build evaluation and validation frameworks (simulation, offline analysis)
  • Transition heuristic-based production system to learning-based approaches

📋 Requirements

  • Production experience with an autonomous learning system controlling capital or resources
  • Designed and enforced hard risk limits (capital caps, loss bounds) in a live system
  • Built a policy evaluation loop from scratch (simulators, replay, shadow deployments)
  • Operated as sole owner of a complex ML system in a small team

✨ Nice to Have

  • Experience with memecoin or crypto trading systems
  • Background in low-latency production systems

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 💰 Competitive compensation ($400K–$800K salary + equity + bonus)
  • 🚀 Unmatched ownership and autonomy
  • 🌐 Exposure to systems at crypto scale
  • Fast shipping and real-world impact

🚩 Heads Up

  • In-person work with long and unconventional hours
  • Intense pace and high expectations
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