About us

ATG (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 Role

You’ll architect, build, and maintain the distributed systems, APIs, and backend infrastructure that power world-class AI research and deployment. Your work will enable rapid experimentation, robust data flows, and scalable compute.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs.

• Build infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency AI/ML workflows.

• Optimize for performance, reliability, and security at every layer.

• Work closely with research and infra teams to support experimental velocity.

• Contribute to core engineering culture, including code reviews and mentorship.

Requirements

• 3+ years building distributed systems or high-availability backends (preferably in fast-moving or high-stakes environments).

• Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++).

• Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration (AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes).

• Relentless focus on code quality, correctness, and performance.

• 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 ATG

We're building a small, elite team. If you're excited by AI, finance, and building from first principles, we’d love to meet you.

• Work on AI with real stakes

• Early team of repeat founders and ex-researchers from top companies

• High agency, zero bureaucracy environment