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# Member of Technical Staff | Head of Agentic Platform Engineering at Poesis

- **Company:** Poesis
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-06-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/poesis/67524487-a305-4fdd-bf2d-41891cf2749a

## Job description

## ABOUT POESIS

Whoever builds the leading intelligence for finance will create far more than returns. Poesis is the AI-native investment firm running autonomous agents that predict markets, construct portfolios, and manage risk. Our founders managed institutional capital at Capital Group ($3T AUM) and led enterprise ML at Goldman Sachs and Amazon. We're building a new type of firm, where live capital is the training ground for an intelligence that compounds with every signal.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

At Poesis, we are pioneering AI for investing, opening the door to improved alpha discovery, higher quality decision-making and intelligent risk management. AI agents are a core part of how we make this a reality. We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help lead our agent engineering efforts. As the Agents Engineering Lead, you'll bring strong technical judgment and deep curiosity about what frontier models and harnesses make possible, translating emerging capabilities into production systems. You'll collaborate with Poesis leaders to set the vision and execute the development roadmap, with a unique opportunity to define the architecture that shapes how these systems are built and scaled across the organization.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Provide technical leadership across the agent platform
- Design and build agent-driven workflows and internal systems
- Build eval, observability, and feedback systems that improve agent reliability, performance, and learning over time
- Establish patterns and infrastructure for reliable agent deployment

## REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

- 3+ years building software at a frontier AI lab, agentic startup, leading hedge fund, big tech company, or similar
- Strong familiarity with the modern AI stack (LLMs, tool use, orchestration, evaluation)
- Proficiency in Python and SQL, with bonus for TypeScript, Go, or Rust
- Basic understanding of financial markets and a personal or professional interest in investing
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and deploying multi-agent systems in production environments; expertise in agent orchestration, tool calling, context window management, and agent grounding
- Proven ability to anticipate and address failure modes, with hands-on experience in observability and evaluation of agent systems
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

## PREFERRED COMPETENCIES

- Familiarity with agent safety, sandboxing, and guardrail design for high-stakes environments
- Experience working directly with researchers or quantitative developers as a technical partner
- Experience working with unstructured financial data (filings, earnings transcripts, news) and financial data providers (Bloomberg, CapitalIQ, Refinitiv)

## LOCATION

Hybrid: 3 days per week on-site at our office in Menlo Park, CA. Relocation allowance available.

## BENEFITS

We offer excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage, alongside a strong benefits package that includes catered lunches in our Menlo Park office, commuter benefits, and more.

Current legal authorization to work in the US required; continuing work visa sponsorship available for full-time employees.

## WORKING AT POESIS

As an early team member, you’ll help shape not just the product, but how the company operates. Your decisions will have lasting impact across the business. You’ll build from first principles, with no legacy systems, or entrenched processes slowing you down. Our team is made up of people from elite companies and universities who are low ego, collaborative, and excited to build together.

## About Poesis

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Poesis is an AI-native investment manager building a foundation model for investing, using modular AI systems to predict market movements and outperform legacy managers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Alex Popa (Founder & CEO), Charles Elkan (Chief Scientist)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered asset management / hedge fund management
- **Target customers**: Institutional investors, asset managers, and clients seeking AI-driven alpha generation (B2B)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Build up a scale manager that never gets tired, predicts change earlier, and delivers consistent outcomes for clients in a world being reshaped by intelligence.”

## Products & Services
- **Large Investment Model (LIM)**: A single AI foundation model that powers every product—predicts markets, constructs portfolios, and manages risk. It is continuously trained on live capital markets data.
- **AI Agents**: Teams of modular, specialized agents that execute prediction, portfolio construction, and risk management tasks, democratizing access to alpha.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $3 million (estimated, 2025 – per GetLatka)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Recurring Revenue of $990K (estimated ARR for 2025 – per GetLatka); bootstrapped with no outside funding
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None (bootstrapped)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 100% YoY (7 employees on LinkedIn, ~9 on other sources); active hiring for Head of Engineering, Machine Learning Engineer, and Quantitative Developer; LinkedIn follower growth +4.3% monthly

## Competitive Advantages
- First mover in building a **foundation model specifically for investing** (the Large Investment Model)
- Team composed of senior talent from **Capital Group, Goldman Sachs, and Amazon**—combining deep capital markets experience with AI expertise
- Modular, agent-based architecture that can rapidly adapt to market changes
- Real-world validation through live capital deployment (training on actual trading)

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the Large Investment Model to cover more asset classes and geographies
- Continue hiring top-tier AI and engineering talent (founding roles for ML engineers, quant developers, and engineering lead)
- Deliver consistent, systematic outperformance for clients through AI-native investment strategies

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-moving startup environment with mentorship and high ownership; “build alongside investors and technologists reinventing the future of finance and AI”
- **Work model**: Hybrid (employees work both remotely and on-site; office in Palo Alto, CA)
- **Perks**: High-quality dental, vision, and health care; relocation support available
- **Visa sponsorship**: No H-1B sponsorship history found
- **Engineering focus**: Good learning environment for building production-scale AI systems; roles include founding-level impact

## Sources
1. [poesis.ai](https://poesis.ai/)
2. [LinkedIn – Poesis AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/poesisai)
3. [Built In – Poesis Inc.](https://builtin.com/company/poesis-inc)
4. [GetLatka – Poesis AI](https://getlatka.com/companies/poesis.ai)
5. [Scoutify – Poesis Careers](https://scoutify.com/companies/poesis/)

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