Agentic AI Software Engineer | Elite Hedge fund | London
One of the top hedge funds is London is looking for an Engineer to build production-grade agentic systems that operate directly within trading, research, and operational workflows by ingesting real-time data, reasoning over it, and taking action where it matters. The firm is investing heavily in a low-latency, event-driven AI platform systems that sit alongside humans and augment decision-making at scale. Front office impact with systems used directly by revenue generating teams in a greenfield environment with no legacy AI platform, giving full ownership to define the stack and architecture.
What you’ll be building:
- Multi-agent orchestration layer coordinating specialised agents (research, execution support, ops automation)
- Task routing, memory management (vector + structured), and tool invocation pipelines
- Real-time data ingestion + reasoning systems
- Kafka-based pipelines ingesting market data, internal signals, and operational events
- Agents reacting to high-volume event streams (millions of messages/day) with sub-second latency constraints
- Retrieval-augmented workflows over internal datasets (research, trade logs, compliance data)
- Building agents that can plan, execute, validate & iterate without human intervention
Tech environment:
- Languages: Python (core AI + orchestration), Java (low-latency services)
- Data & streaming: Kafka, Postgres / kdb+
- AI tooling: OpenAI / open-weight models (LLaMA variants), LangChain / custom orchestration layers
- Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, cloud-native + on-prem hybrid
What we’re looking for:
- 5+ years building complex, production-grade systems
- Strong Python and/or Java
- Strong academic background (top universities preferred)
- Ability to operate in ambiguous, high-impact environments