AI Engineer at Tracelight
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AI Engineer at Tracelight - $3.6M Seed-stage AI platform
Company Description: Tracelight - VC-backed AI operating system
Job Description:
You will join a high-caliber team of ex-Jane Street and Cambridge engineers to build the AI operating system for financial modelling. Starting with a sophisticated Excel AI agent already used by top-tier consulting firms and PE funds, you will own the development of intelligent agents, evaluation pipelines, and fine-tuning strategies to automate complex strategic decision-making.
Why this role is remarkable:
Work alongside a world-class engineering team with backgrounds from Jane Street, Bloomberg, and 11x at a fast-growing startup backed by Chalfen Ventures.
Solve the "worst-tooled" programming problem in business, building tools used by 6 of the top 10 global management consulting firms and PE funds managing $600B+.
Massive growth potential as an early hire in a company targeting a $100B+ market opportunity to redefine how global businesses make their biggest decisions.
What you will do:
Build and optimize high-performance AI agents using MCP, custom skills, and optimized context windows to automate complex financial modeling tasks.
Lead technical ownership of evaluation pipelines, data collection, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and reinforcement learning (RL) to make models smarter and more reliable.
Ship high-quality code at an intense pace using advanced AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor to maintain a high-frequency product iteration cycle.
The ideal candidate:
Proven evidence of being a top-centile engineer with experience building autonomous agents and sophisticated AI tooling in production environments.
High-agency technical leader proficient in TypeScript and React, with a strong interest or experience in Rust for performance-critical systems.
Experience in high-stakes technical environments such as competitive programming, quantitative trading, or building foundational agentic systems.
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And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
Next steps
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Step 5. If Jill thinks you're a great fit and her client wants to meet you, they will make the introduction.
Step 6. If not, Jack will find you excellent alternatives. All for free.
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