Member of Technical Staff – Research

About Liquid

Liquid is a trading platform to trade anything, anytime, and anywhere. Our team is small, highly efficient, motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. We cultivate individuals that enjoy ownership and thrive off of agency. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on, and contribute directly to the company's mission. Work ethic, contextual organization and strong prioritization are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

About the role

We're seeking a remarkable Member of Technical Staff to join our team in creating a central intelligent trading unit that can trade autonomously for tens of thousands of users. The ideal candidate will combine strong coding capabilities, contextual awareness, and previous experience to build robust experiences that users can rely on.

Responsibilities

• Contributing perspective to product, harvesting and selecting proper sources to contribute to an educated unit

• Drive technical and product decisions, collaborating with designers and engineers to create lightning-fast, highly performant trading systems

• Training custom models, and harnessing information properly for users to easily interpret and utilize quickly

Qualifications

We do not believe that technical prowess is correlated to age, or previous experience. Please apply if you identify with all of the attributes below, and can easily prove so.

• You have a strong technical background, backed by proof

• You take extreme pride in your work, and thrive in meritocratic environments

• You are an exceptional researcher or engineer

What we prefer

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or a closely related technical field (or equivalent professional experience)

• Strong programming skills, to easily integrate within our environment

• Pride themselves on delivering results swiftly, often faster than their peers; we ship extremely fast here, and with that we must all maintain velocity

• Previous work in open-source, but will not be considered negatively if without

• A trading/Olympiad background, but will not be considered negatively if without

Our interview process

We do not believe in traditional interview processes, and a practical experience is better for us to gauge your experience. Your interview process will be personalized, to the judgment of your interviewer.

Work trials are paid generously and we may fly you out to New York City to integrate with the team and the office.

Compensation and benefits

$160,000 – $320,000 USD

Base salary is not only one of our total compensation package at Liquid, which also includes early equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, wellness benefits, transportation to-and-from office, and fully compensated lunch and dinner.