Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem and is seeking a Senior / Staff AI Platform Engineer. The role involves building a core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience, developing a high-performance backend, and designing robust APIs and components for AI capabilities.
Responsibilities
- You will build the core AI platform that powers a copilot inside a new, AI-native trading experience
- You will develop a high-performance backend in Rust that supports streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and reliable orchestration of model + tools
- You will design robust APIs and runtime components for AI capabilities: authentication/authorization, rate limits, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks
- You will build safe action infrastructure for trading workflows: deterministic order previews, confirmation flows, idempotent tool calls, and comprehensive audit logs
- You will partner with product and frontend to enable great AI-native UX patterns (streaming, citations/grounding, “why” explanations, reversible actions)
- You will develop a deep understanding of the business domain and help translate it into secure, resilient platform primitives
Skills
- At least Eight (8) years of experience and strong proficiency with any programming language
- Strong knowledge of systems programming fundamentals: concurrency, networking, performance profiling, reliability, and distributed systems patterns
- Experience designing and operating production APIs/services with strong observability, correctness guarantees, and security considerations
- Ability to work with stakeholders to define platform requirements, design the architecture, and deliver it end-to-end
- High degree of self-motivation and willingness to jump into unfamiliar areas to solve problems
- Strong Rust experience in production (Tokio/async, service design, performance tuning)
- Experience building platforms for AI/ML inference, tool execution, streaming, or retrieval/grounding systems
- Experience in trading systems (order lifecycle, execution, risk checks, auditability) or other mission-critical financial infrastructure
- Deep experience with trading across asset classes, margin types, etc
- Experience with Postgres performance and data modeling in high-throughput systems
Benefits
- Company equity
- 401k matching
- Gender neutral parental leave
- Full medical, dental and vision insurance
- Lunch stipends
- Fully stocked kitchens
- Happy hours
- A great location
- Amazing views
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