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HELIX AI/CAREERS

Build the firm you’d want to trade at.

We are a small team by design. Every hire shapes the research, the stack, and the culture of the firm for years to come — which is why we hire slowly, pay extremely well, and give people the autonomy and the data to do the best work of their careers.

/ Team<30 people
/ OfficesSG · HK · Remote
/ Open Roles09 positions
/ CapitalProprietary
/001   Why Helix AI

The case for joining a small, AI-native prop firm.

/ 01

Our capital, your autonomy.

We trade our own money. That means no client relationships to manage, no quarterly investor calls, no mandate drift. It also means your ideas get real capital when the research supports it — not when the marketing team approves.

/ 02

Built for the AI era.

Not a legacy quant shop bolting ML onto an old pipeline. A new firm built from first principles for modern deep learning, foundation models, and research infrastructure. You work with the tools we actually want to use.

/ 03

Small, senior, end-to-end.

Fewer than thirty people across the firm. Every researcher, engineer, trader, and analyst owns their work end-to-end — from idea to backtest to production P&L. Compensation tracks contribution, not committee, and it is paid in cash.

/ 04

Quant, AI, and discretionary — together.

Systematic researchers, AI scientists, and fundamental analysts share data, infrastructure, and risk capital. Each discipline sharpens the others. Some of our best ideas come from the seams between them.

/002   Open Roles

What we’re hiring for, right now.

/ 01
Quantitative Researcher — Systematic Equity
Own the full research pipeline for cross-sectional equity strategies — from hypothesis gen
ResearchSingaporeView →
/ 02
Quantitative Researcher — Summer Intern 2027
A twelve-week immersive research internship where you own a real project alongside a senio
ResearchSingaporeView →
/ 03
AI Scientist — Foundation Models for Markets
Lead the development of large-scale foundation models that learn rich, transferable repres
AISingapore · Hong Kong · RemoteView →
/ 04
Machine Learning Researcher — Alpha Models
Develop deep-learning models that translate raw market and alternative data into live alph
AISingapore · RemoteView →
/ 05
LLM Scientist — Research Automation
Build the LLM-driven systems that let the firm’s researchers operate with leverage — inges
AISingapore · RemoteView →
/ 06
Senior Equity Analyst — Semiconductors & TMT
Run a concentrated long/short book across semiconductors, semicap equipment, and adjacent
InvestmentHong Kong · SingaporeView →
/ 07
Systematic Trader — Crypto Derivatives
Take live ownership of Helix AI’s crypto derivatives book — perpetuals, options, and struc
TradingHong KongView →
/ 08
Data Infrastructure Engineer
Design and build the tick-level data warehouse and research data platform the entire firm
EngineeringSingapore · RemoteView →
/ 09
Execution Systems Engineer (C++ / Rust)
Build the firm’s execution layer — order management, smart order routing, exchange connect
EngineeringSingapore · Hong KongView →
/003   How we hire

No fixed pipeline. Honest conversations and real work.

We do not run a standardised interview process. The shape of the conversation depends on the role, your background, and what we are both trying to learn — and we trust the team to make those judgement calls.

For research and engineering roles, expect a candid first conversation, then a few hours on a problem we actually care about — chosen so the answer is interesting regardless of whether we hire you. For investment and trading roles, expect us to read your written work, hear your active book, and have you meet the team you would be sitting with.

We move quickly when the fit is real — usually weeks, not months. We close the loop honestly when it is not. Either way, you should walk away with a sharper view of your own work than when you started.

/004   Life at Helix AI

Deep focus, long horizons, good company.

We keep the firm small, the communication direct, and the calendar mostly empty. Research is a marathon of experiments — not a sprint of standups — and we structure the firm around that fact.

Work is mostly async, in-person when it matters. You will find yourself in long threads of technical detail, whiteboard sessions that go for hours, and quiet afternoons of deep focus with no interruptions.

We invest seriously in the boring things: compute budgets, market data, monitors, desks, travel between offices. The best research happens when the tools and the environment get out of the way.

/ 01
Compensation aligned with what you build
Top-of-market base, plus performance share in the strategies and systems you contribute to. No deferred buckets, no opaque comp committees.
/ 02
Compute, data, vendors without friction
GPU clusters, tick-level vendor feeds, alternative data, broker research. We buy what compounds returns and keep the procurement loop short.
/ 03
Long horizons by design
Multi-year research projects are the norm. Most of what works in markets needs time, and we structure the firm to give it that time.
/ 04
Flat, senior, no political layers
Fewer than thirty people, all senior. Decisions happen in technical conversations, not committees. You will know everyone you work with.
/ 05
Singapore, Hong Kong, async where it works
Two offices in major Asian financial hubs. Most research roles are flexible on location — what matters is the work, not the chair.
/ 06
Direct path from idea to live
No layers between research and capital. If your work survives our risk framework, it gets funded. That is the only filter.
/005   Apply

Don’t see a role that fits?
Write to us anyway.

We meet interesting people all the time and hire when the person is right — not only when a job description is posted. Send us a note, a CV, a piece of work you are proud of, or just a paragraph about what you are thinking about.

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