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Lead AI Platform Engineer

  2025-09-12     RBF Capital, LLC     San Francisco,CA  
Description:

Overview

Join a boutique quantamental hedge fund as our Lead AI Platform Engineer. Spearhead the buildout of a new internal data lake and platform. Build AI/ML-powered systems and hire, onboard, and manage a small team. Disrupt a mature industry and redefine how our strategies are executed.

Your Role

Technical Leadership

  • Design data platform architecture with ingestion pipelines, storage layers, and modern stacks
  • Build ML workflows for automated analysis and pattern recognition
  • Integrate RAG, LLMs, and AI tools for document processing and querying

Team Management

  • Hire and onboard/manage 3-5 specialists across data engineering, backend, and ML research
  • Work with the existing team to integrate new capabilities and manage project deliverables
Required Experience
  • 6+ years building ML data platforms, deploying models, and feature engineering
  • Demonstrated proficiency in LLM fine-tuning, system prompting, and multi-agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, or CrewAI)
  • Strength in time-series forecasting, gradient-boosting models, and data-normalization pipelines
  • Advanced SQL, Python, Cursor, RAG, distributed computing with database scaling expertise
  • Team leadership and project-delivery experience with a proven track record of selecting and evaluating optimal technology stacks
  • Deep NLP expertise for extracting insights from unstructured text
  • Enterprise AI integration with relational and vector databases
Why This Role Matters

You'll leverage and enhance our internal IP and time-tested processes to extend our 30-year winning track record in public markets.

What We Offer
  • Competitive salary plus equity participation in fund performance
  • Full technical authority with executive backing and budget for team hiring and tech investments
  • Opportunity to build from scratch at a profitable, growing fund
Next Steps
  • We need someone who can start immediately and take ownership of this project. The ideal candidate has built similar platforms and is excited about applying ML to financial data.
  • If you're a strong fit, apply on our website ( or email your resume to ...@fullertonlp.com.

San Francisco-based, full-time position with comprehensive benefits and collaborative work environment.

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