AI Agent Engineer

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