Principal Engineer, AI Products

As a Principal Engineer on Paradex's product engineering team, you'll own the architecture and technical direction for AI products, including Dime Terminal. You work at the intersection of AI infrastructure and finance, setting direction on the highest-ambiguity problems where the model, untrusted app code, and real financial value converge. You'll partner closely with security, product, and engineering teams across the company.

What you'll do

• Architect and build a scalable platform for users and AI agents to orchestrate intent across platforms and applications
• Design and build the best LLM model for finance that is efficient and cost effective for users
• Own the security architecture of enabling users to increase their leverage with AI while protecting their secret keys
• Shape the system for years to come by continually discovering and integrating new technologies to advance the AI harness and ecosystem

What you bring

• 10+ years of backend and distributed systems engineering, including owning a system's architecture from concept through production at scale, ideally as a technical lead or principal level engineer
• Hands-on experience building or operating AI agent infrastructure, including tool use orchestration, sandboxed execution, and defenses against prompt injection and other model level attacks
• Deep experience with secrets management and workload identity systems, with a track record of designing systems that hold up against a compromised or malicious participant
• Proficient understanding of the cryptocurrency ecosystem and underlying technologies like blockchain, proof of work, proof of stake, and layer one and layer two networks
• Experience building systems where correctness is non-negotiable, such as ledgers, balance enforcement, and idempotent transaction handling, ideally in a regulated or crypto-adjacent environment
• A track record of setting technical direction across teams and driving alignment on ambiguous, high-stakes problems

Nice to have

• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks

What we offer

• Top-tier compensation in the industry
• Unlimited vacation
• Comprehensive benefits packages tailored by country
• No manager 1:1s and no unnecessary meetings

About Paradex

Paradex is a decentralized exchange combining exchange, asset management, and borrow/lend functionality through one unified account. The platform offers trading across 250+ markets with zero fees and institutional-grade privacy on a fast blockchain. Backed by top-tier investors and incubated by Paradigm, Paradex has processed $200+ billion in lifetime volume with $1.2+ billion in average daily volume and $60+ million in total value locked.