- Location
- California, United States · Remote
- Compensation
- $120k – $200k
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience level
- MID (2–5 years exp)
- Specialization
- AI Engineer, Wellfound
- Source
- Wellfound
About Alva
Alva is your AI investing agent. Research a thesis. Monitor a narrative. Backtest an idea. Automate a strategy. Alva turns any of it into a live Playbook — with a team of agents watching the market 24/7 and alerting you the moment it matters. Powered by institutional-grade data from 100+ sources and a growing library of community skills and playbooks you can follow, remix, and learn from, Alva is your personal edge in all markets.
Alva was founded by a team of proven serial entrepreneurs. The founding team includes co-founders from Galxe, a major Web3 growth platform with over 30 million active users, as well as a co-founder from MiniMax, a leading frontier AI lab.
About the role
Alva is building AI agents that automate the investment research workflow — from idea generation and data analytics to trend monitoring, strategy development, and backtesting — while enabling users to build, share, and refine their strategies together.
You will build and ship AI agents that reliably complete investment-related tasks. This is an agent-builder role, not model research and not script writing — and evals are a first-class citizen, not an afterthought.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and deploy AI agents
- Equip agents with specialized tools and knowledge
- Implement safety guardrails
- Create evals, monitor performance, and iterate quickly
- Collaborate with product, operations, and quant researchers
What we're looking for
- Strong engineering fundamentals
- Can own systems end-to-end
- Excited and thoughtful about AI — you can reason about why an agent failed, not just that it did
- Curious about markets / investing (deep expertise not required)
Compensation
$100K–$200K + equity. Full-time. Location: Shanghai or US West Coast.
How to apply
Email [email protected] with something you've built and a few lines on why this role.
Full details: https://alva-careers.netlify.app/playbook