💡 About Brightwave
Brightwave is a deep technology startup building LLM-powered investment research systems that can autonomously reason across huge bodies of multimodal text, table and image data such as SEC filings, real-time news feeds, earnings call transcripts, legal rulings, patents, sell-side analysis and more. Brightwave helps active asset managers accelerate research workflows and generate investment ideas with unprecedented depth and comprehensiveness. Brightwave is experiencing rapid growth and commercial success, with paying customers with assets under management in excess of $120B and brisk demand from diverse clients across financial services.
🛰️ Create Something Incredible
We hire exceptional humans who are intrinsically motivated to do great work. As a principle we tend to favor a smaller team of senior, seasoned professionals who intuitively know what needs to happen next. Brightwave's team includes engineers from places like Databricks and Meta, NeurIPS-published research scientists, and commercial talents with tours of duty at firms like Goldman Sachs, UBS and McKinsey.
Our venture investors include some of the world's largest asset managers as well as angels from OpenAI, Databricks, Uber, LinkedIn and the Solana Foundation.
🛠️ Software Engineering at Brightwave
Software engineering at Brightwave involves building performant, modular code that makes the people around you more productive. This work spans all aspects of creating and operating a modern cloud-based systems architecture and involves creating AI/ML-adjacent technologies relating to LLM’s and search infrastructure alongside bread-and-butter tasks like API development, database design, and distributed systems orchestration.
Success in this role will benefit from extensive experience operating production systems at scale, clear and generous technical communication, intellectual curiosity and a good sense of humor.
🎯 Responsibilities
- Partner closely with our CTO to establish foundational engineering practices that will define the Brightwave stack on a 3-5 year timescale
- Parse and index billion-document-scale multimodal corpuses such as as SEC filings, real-time news, legal rulings, patents, podcasts, etc.
- Design and implement bespoke LLM-powered agent orchestration systems that integrate novel research findings and methods
- Adapt to novel, complex tasks - most of what we're building has never been done before, and we're hiring generalists who can figure out optimal solutions to hard problems quickly.
🚀 Capabilities
Strong candidates for this role will have some (but not necessarily all) of the following capabilities and experiences. At Brightwave we grow together.
- 7+ years of production software engineering experience; we are hiring SWE's through L7
- Desire to take ownership of large projects, seeing them through from concept to production
- Excellent computer science fundamentals and an attention to detail that enables you to implement complex algorithms precisely and efficiently
- Strong coding skills with an emphasis on designing for reliability and scale; we are primarily a Python shop, but hire strong engineers who can learn new skills.
- Experience with cloud environment configuration and best practices (AWS preferred)
- Interest in ML/AI methods and tooling, e.g. Hugging Face, pytorch, sentence-transformers
- Ability to maintain operational velocity (measured in terms of a high volume of high quality commits to master) without sacrificing quality (e.g. test coverage, stable deployments etc)
✨ Values Matter
We stay true to our values, and work with people who do the same.
- Ownership. We take responsibility for how we choose to respond to our circumstances.
- Humility. Most situations warrant a sense of curiosity and a willingness to be wrong.
- Craftsmanship. We take pride in the work and tend to the details.
- Focus. Transformative work only happens in the presence of intense, sustained focus.
- Empathy. Seek first to understand - most people are basically reasonable and want to do the right thing.
- Humor. Life is a gift, let’s enjoy it together.