Job Description
Quant AI Engineer — New Systematic Trading Venture (DIFC, Dubai)
Who we are. We are an established debt and M\&A advisory boutique with offices in London and Dubai (DIFC). After years advising institutional clients on complex transactions, we are launching a new venture: an AI-native systematic trading operation, built from the ground up around LLMs and machine learning — applied to research, signal generation, and execution.
This is not a corporate innovation lab. It’s a founding team of three: the CEO, one AI engineer, and you.
The role. You’ll be a founding Quant AI Engineer with end-to-end ownership of the quantitative stack — from research and backtesting to production deployment. Working directly with the CEO means your work goes from idea to live capital in days, not quarters.
What you’ll do:
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Design, backtest, and optimize native AI/systematic trading and advisiory strategies across algorithmic, hedge-fund, and long-only mandates
- Build LLM-driven research pipelines — extracting signals and market insights from unstructured data (filings, news, transcripts, alternative data)
- Take models from notebook to production: robust, monitored, live
- Shape the architecture, the tooling, and the culture of a trading operation from day one
What you bring:
- Strong foundation in mathematics, statistics, or a related quantitative field (Master’s or PhD a plus)
- 3-6 years building and backtesting trading strategies — at a fund, prop shop, or as a serious independent with a verifiable track record
- Excellent Python; comfort owning a codebase end to end
- Hands-on experience applying LLMs to research, analytics, or trading workflows (RAG, fine-tuning, agentic pipelines)
- Appetite for early-stage ownership and asymmetric reward
Why this beats a fund seat:
- Uncapped performance bonus tied directly to strategy P\&L — when your strategies work, you’re compensated like a partner, not an employee
- Backed by an established, revenue-generating advisory firm — startup upside without startup fragility
- Direct line to the CEO; zero layers, zero politics
- Dubai/DIFC base: 0% personal income tax — your bonus is yours
- Founding-team influence on everything that gets built
If you’ve watched your alpha pay for someone else’s bonus pool, this is the other side of that trade. Reach out directly — or send this to the person you know it describes.