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Voloridge Investment Management, LLC · 21 hours ago

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Voloridge Investment Management is a firm that incorporates advanced data science and mathematics into market neutral investment strategies. As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you will work closely with users to understand their challenges and design LLM-powered solutions, while owning features end-to-end and shaping product direction.

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Responsibilities

Embed with internal users to understand workflows, identify pain points, and deliver AI-powered solutions that solve real problems
Engineer prompts, context, and system architecture for LLMs, balancing technical rigor with practical user needs
Build validation pipelines and evaluation benchmarks for LLM outputs, ensuring correctness, safety, and alignment with user expectations
Build and maintain RAG pipelines and LLM-powered data workflows
Develop cloud-native solutions on AWS (Lambda, S3, ECS, SageMaker, Step Functions), architecting for LLM-specific constraints
Translate user feedback and field insights into product direction, influencing what gets built based on real-world needs
Build trust across engineering, product, and business teams; mentor others on AI technologies and best practices
Identify edge cases, diagnose failure modes, and shape how AI systems learn and improve over time
Design reliable LLM integrations: error handling, retries, circuit breakers, and monitoring for hallucinations and quality drift
Optimize LLM API costs through caching, batching, and model selection
Implement security controls against prompt injection and LLM attack vectors

Qualification

LLM integrationAWSSQL databasesMicroservicesPythonRAG pipelinesInfrastructure-as-codeCuriosityCommunicationProblem-solving orientation

Required

Strong experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and familiarity with NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis)
Hands-on LLM integration experience: prompt engineering and context management
Proficiency in AWS and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Solid understanding of microservices and containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
4-year college degree (or higher) in Computer Science or related field
3–5 years software engineering with production LLM experience
Ability to work onsite in our Jupiter, FL office
Experience working with users to understand needs and iterate on solutions
Strong problem-solving orientation: outcomes and empathy over process
Demonstrated ability to detect and mitigate LLM hallucinations
Experience with RAG pipelines: embeddings, chunking, vector databases
Awareness of LLM security risks and mitigation strategies

Preferred

Experience building agentic AI systems with tool use, multi-step reasoning, and safety constraints
5+ years Python development experience
CI/CD and DevOps experience
Familiarity with financial data and HIPAA
Deeply curious and high-agency: you drive solutions without waiting for direction
Strong communication: you build trust and translate between technical and business audiences
Understanding of LLM evaluation: metrics, benchmarks, non-deterministic testing

Benefits

Highly competitive base salary
Profit sharing bonus
Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
401K

Company

Voloridge Investment Management, LLC

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Voloridge is a quantitative investment management firm built upon a foundation of collaboration.

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (3)
2024 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage

Leadership Team

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David S. Vogel
Founder/Chief Executive Officer and Chief Data Scientist
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