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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