Work Culture
A relaxed, wonderfully friendly work culture that promotes collaboration and initiative. Mentorship is better than instruction.
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Our internships are structured like open-ended research projects. These research projects can at times grow into future businesses.
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Our hiring profiles indicate the broad roles we have available and the calibre of candidates we seek. Understand our hiring process and apply.
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Work Culture
Our workspace is unique and unlike any place you may have worked at before – We have a wonderfully friendly work culture that promotes collaboration and initiative. As a fast moving start-up, we value the ability to work in fuzzy environments. Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies, and an inclination to learn and explore new ones is deeply appreciated.
A key concept here is “Mentorship” and we strongly believe that “Mentorship is Better Than Instruction”. We don’t just spend a day here, a day there training our employees – instead we work closely together day-in and day-out, give everyone the same opportunities, share responsibilities and provide the freedom and space to learn, make and progress. Every single day, every one of us is teaching everyone else a little bit more – about finance, programming, systems, testing, analysis – in short sharing knowledge freely and eagerly.
Our office may be informal, but we take our responsibilities seriously. Employees are encouraged to take extreme ownership of tasks they work on – if you own something, you are responsible for every aspect of it, regardless of the circumstances. People are understanding of issues, but the theme is constantly present that you don't make excuses for stuff you own. Consequently, there's no bureaucracy to navigate and no "ivory tower engineering" – you're expected to design, build and test what you own. You're expected to be close to the ground and focus on the mission at hand. As a result, employees see the impact of their work on a daily basis and not in some far distant future.
While we hire for specific roles, internally our roles are flexible and fluid – employees who have interests in other areas and seek projects that align with their interests. Our ethos of initiative and ownership transcends bucketed roles within the company – if you want to work on something not part of your core role, you can make it happen.
The other thing is – we listen. We seriously promote ideas that come in from all corners of the firm and weigh each one on its merits. We encourage employees to start and work on research projects that interest them and we essentially ensure that every one of us is enjoying the day in office.
'Cuz That’s How We Roll.
Research Projects
ML internships are structured like open-ended research projects
We encourage employees taking initiative, and one form of this is creating new projects within the firm. Anyone can come up with an idea which leads to a long term, open-ended research project. Some of these may translate into business lines in the future, however the key theme behind them is “develop your own interesting ideas”.
These research projects are a great topics for internship projects as they are greenfield efforts and thus do not require learning complex systems before getting started. Interns can begin contributing soon after starting off instead of getting bogged down in archaic existing codebases – making it exciting and productive for both our interns and for us.
We strongly consider every intern for a full-time position – it is our preferred means of hiring. Come work with us for a couple of months, experience the work profile and our work culture firsthand. If you do well, we will definitely make you an offer.
We make most of our internship offers via select campus placements, however if you are convinced that you are a good fit for an internship then you may apply for an internship in the same manner as a full time position. We only offer Summer internships with a minimum duration of 2 months.
Where Can I Fit In?
Hiring profiles indicate the broad roles we have available and the calibre of candidates we seek. Our roles are internally flexible
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How Do I Apply?
Our preferred method of hiring is via internships – come work with us for a couple of months, see the work profile and experience our work culture for yourself. If you do well, we will definitely make you a job offer.
For permanent roles or for internship positions, drop us an email. Add your resumé (keep it concise) and write about anything else you feel is important. If you’ve worked on open source projects, do include links to GitHub/GitLab, Google Summer of Code, etc. If you have Robotics experience, then send us a picture of your robot doing something cute ;)
Strategy Dev
Analyze market patterns and build trading strategies using ML
If you enjoy: math, statistics, puzzles, ML, data science, trading
Required: strong fundamentals in statistics, extreme problem solving mindset
Execution Systems
Build low-latency trading infrastructure for financial exchanges worldwide
If you love: programming, no wasted CPU cycles, hard engineering problems
Required: experience with systems programming languages
FPGA
Build hardware for sub-microsecond wire-to-wire ultra-low-latency processing
Required: VHDL, Verilog
Market Ops
Monitor and automate production systems
Required: Python, BASH scripting
Bonus: GCP/AWS exposure, security exposure
User Interfaces
Create user-facing apps and websites
Required: Python, JS
Bonus: UI/UX exposure
ML Pipeline
Enable analysis of massive volumes of data.
Required: Python, Data Science, GCP/AWS exposure
Umm... I have a Question...
Frequently Asked Questions
My skillset fits Role A but I am highly interested in Role B?
Hiring Roles are indicative of what is required. Internally our roles are flexible to a degree. Read the Work Culture section.
Tell us about your skillset role and your interest role when you apply. Ask to speak to employees who have transitioned roles during the interview.
It helps to back up your interest in another role with some actions showing your interest, for example courses attended or hobby projects created.
I do not have a CompSci degree. Can I apply?
Our work is heavily programming based, so even though we consider candidates with electrical, physics or other primary degrees, a comp-sci degree helps a LOT.
You do have to show familiarity and competence with computer programming to be considered. When applying, take care to demonstrate the following to us:
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Good code in hiring responses
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Open source or hobby projects
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Write about your exposure to CS
I did not get a response!
Sorry about that!
At any time, we have 100x the number of applicants as open positions so it takes our small team a while to respond to hiring queries.
We do give a higher priority to candidates who have put in good effort in their responses to the hiring challenges.
Thanks for being patient!
No roles for Fundamental Portfolio?
The Fundamental Portfolio started as a way of parking the firm's unused capital. It is a side-interest – the firm is primarily focused on ML and quantitative trading, thus we do not explicitly hire for Fundamental Portfolio roles.