Event Horizon Labs, a YC W24 startup building an AI-native hedge fund, is hiring a Founding Infrastructure Engineer. The role offers $150K-$200K base salary plus 1.00%-3.00% equity, requiring 3+ years of experience in distributed systems and Kubernetes.

Based in San Francisco, the company develops autonomous research infrastructure that discovers profitable trading strategies through parallel agent execution. The team includes alumni from Citadel, Jump Trading, Stanford, Caltech, and Berkeley, building what they describe as infrastructure for autonomous problem-solving in financial markets.

The Founding Infrastructure Engineer will design the orchestration layer, data pipelines, and observability systems that power hundreds of AI agents. Responsibilities include compute scheduling, real-time market data ingestion, and low-latency trading system optimization. The stack includes Python, Go, Kubernetes, and streaming data technologies.