D. E. Shaw · Hedge fund · New York · Mid-level · Posted 2025-10-10
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The D. E. Shaw group seeks a highly motivated and entrepreneurial technical product engineer to join its newly formed private equity venture, Cove, and help build the AI-powered platform at its core. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy and technical execution, offering the opportunity to define, shape, and deliver technology solutions that will become the operational backbone of the group. As an early team member, this product engineer will play a key role in addressing the open challenge of applying AI to private equity investments and operations, with the backing of one of the most technologically sophisticated investment firms in the world.
You'll be involved in all aspects of building and scaling technology products for the fund's investment activities, including:
Work closely with the investment and operations teams to surface high-impact opportunities, pressure-test ideas, and translate workflow challenges into clear product direction.
Own product design end-to-end—from how data is structured and connected to the business logic that determines how a tool actually behaves—bringing both conceptual clarity and technical precision to each iteration.
Design and build AI-native products that use LLMs to change how investment teams work, with a solid intuition for how model behavior shapes user experience and where AI can add genuine leverage.
Drive products from prototype to production, contributing code directly—especially in early stages—when tight product and business judgment matters most.