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Member of Technical Staff (Research Engineering)
Autonomous Technologies Group · New York City
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About usATG (Autonomous Technologies Group) is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets. Founders: Early GPU cloud (9 figure exit).Investors: Garry Tan / YC + Founder of one of the most successful quant funds, BoxGroup (Plaid, Ramp, Stripe), top-tier angels.About the RoleYou’ll bridge research and engineering—rapidly implementing, experimenting with, and scaling new algorithms and models. You’ll work closely with scientists and founders to translate ideas into high-performance systems, and will operate across the stack from prototyping to deployment.ResponsibilitiesPrototype and scale experimental models (LLMs, RL agents, agentic systems) on large, real-world data.Build tools and pipelines for training, evaluation, and analysis.Implement state-of-the-art research from papers and iterate in collaboration with scientists.Own the full ML lifecycle: data engineering, experimentation, training, and deployment.Operate in a highly autonomous, engineering-driven environment.RequirementsStrong background in deep learning, reinforcement learning, or computational modeling.Expert-level Python and significant experience in ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow).Ability to translate research into robust, scalable systems.Experience with distributed computing or large-scale ML pipelines.Demonstrated curiosity and hands-on experimentation skills.Expertise in leveraging the latest AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc) to increase productivity & code output while maintaining high code quality, maintainability, and structure.Why Join ATGWe're building a small, elite team. If you're excited by AI, markets, and building from first principles, we’d love to meet you.Work on AI with a massive market opportunityEarly team of repeat founders backed by top investorsHigh agency, talent dense, zero bureaucracy