Applied AI Engineer

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid - 3 days in-office)

Compensation: $200k - $250k base + Equity

Start Date: Q1 2026

We are hiring on behalf of our client who is looking for an exceptional Applied AI Engineer to join their team in Austin. They are a well-funded ($40M) startup backed by top-tier investors like Paradigm and Electric Capital. They are currently rebuilding the infrastructure of the global financial system—bringing it fully on-chain to make it faster and safer. Your mission is to level up their entire organization’s impact by embedding AI deeply into how they engineer and operate. You will stay at the absolute frontier of AI development, ensuring their team evolves from "using AI" to "effectively managing a team of AI agents" with consistent quality and guardrails.

What You Will Do:

About Signal Ocean:

Signal Ocean is the technology arm of the Signal Group, a diversified shipping services group with offices in London and Athens. Our main product, The Signal Ocean Platform, allows ship charterers, brokers and owners to securely process, combine and analyse complex arrays of private and public shipping data. Powered by sophisticated machine learning / artificial intelligence technologies, the platform delivers customized, exclusive insights that help our clients achieve performance and efficiency.

About the role

As the Signal Ocean Platform continues to grow, we’re expanding our engineering team. We’re looking for a Software Engineer capable of building and maintaining scalable back-end data services (primarily in Python) within the Modelling & Data Services team. Signal’s Software Engineers work closely with data science, design, product, and business analysis professionals to develop robust solutions for the highly entrepreneurial domain of shipping.

Tiger Analytics is looking for experienced GenAI Architect to join our fast-growing advanced analytics consulting firm. Our employees bring deep expertise in Machine Learning, Data Science, and AI. We are the trusted analytics partner for multiple Fortune 500 companies, enabling them to generate business value from data. Our business value and leadership has been recognized by various market research firms, including Forrester and Gartner.

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Lead with deep expertise in Generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLM) / Small Language Models (SLM) who can lead the design, development, and integration of AI-powered components into real-world, production-grade applications. This role demands strong engineering leadership and best practices, a practical approach to application development and system design with applied AI, fluency in modern AI tools, frameworks, cloud-native application stacks, and preferably knowledge of healthcare domain intricacies. You will lead the technical delivery of AI-powered features for a variety of horizonal and vertical healthcare use cases— all while ensuring compliance with enterprise integration standards.

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Responsibilities

Who we are;

Octopus by RTG is enabling a key partner organization to grow their tech teams while focusing on AI. We are currently looking for the right pioneers to join the team!

Octopus is proud to be part of the Robusta Technology Group (RTG), a leading tech group. With a decade of experience and a successful track record of delivering over 300 projects across Europe, the Middle East, and North America, RTG has established itself as a preferred employer in the Egyptian market. Octopus and Robusta are building a bridge between Europe and Africa, creating tailored hub solutions to connect companies with top talent across the globe.

Octopus is specialized in rapidly assembling remote & onsite global tech teams that are fully aligned with the culture and practices of a particular brand. By providing tailored hubs to suit its clients needs, Octopus gives companies all the advantages of remote work and offshoring without all the negatives.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Design System Designer to expand and scale an enterprise-grade Design System supporting the MIB2 program. This role is ideal for a hands-on system thinker with strong experience in scaling design systems across multiple platforms and aligning multiple design vendors under one unified framework.

Solana Program Engineer

Location: New York (Office)

On-site | Full-time

Compensation: Competitive

Our client is a high-performance technology development firm responsible for building and operating the foundational infrastructure behind the world’s most active digital asset launchpads. The systems managed by this organization are defined by ultra-low latency, high throughput, and constant high-concurrency load. This is a mission-critical environment where technical precision is paramount; these systems operate under extreme real-world pressure where the margin for error is non-existent.

The organization is seeking a Staff Solana Program Engineer to design, build, and maintain on-chain programs that operate under heavy transaction volume. This is a hands-on role requiring absolute technical ownership and a deep understanding of blockchain performance. The successful candidate will join an elite team of builders where the pace is intense, expectations are high, and the impact of every deployment is immediate.

Key Responsibilities

On behalf of our client, we are supporting to recruit a Re-tube Tooling Expert to work in accordance with the prescribed safety procedures and regulations.

The Retube Tooling Expert serves as the technical authority for all retube tooling and process activities, ensuring that tooling design, testing, and maintenance programs are robust, compliant, and fully capable of meeting project requirements. The role provides expert oversight and acts as the primary technical interface between tooling contractors and the project owner, ensuring that all tools and processes are prepared, qualified, and performed as intended during field execution. When tooling performance issues arise, the Retube Tooling Expert applies advanced technical knowledge to diagnose problems, identify root causes, and implement effective corrective actions to maintain schedule, safety, and quality objectives.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Tiger Analytics is a global leader in AI and advanced analytics consulting, empowering Fortune 1000 companies to solve their toughest business challenges. We are on a mission to push the boundaries of what AI can do, providing data-driven certainty for a better tomorrow. Our diverse team of over 6,000 technologists and consultants operates across five continents, building cutting-edge ML and data solutions at scale. Join us to do great work and shape the future of enterprise AI.

We are looking for a highly skilled GenAI Engineer with strong hands-on experience in building, evaluating, and deploying advanced Generative AI systems. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in agentic frameworks, model fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning, along with a strong focus on experimentation, reliability, and hallucination mitigation beyond prompt engineering.

Requirements

Senior Validator Engineer (Solana)

Location: Remote - Europe only

Compensation: $180K - $300K

We are reengineering blockchain infrastructure from first principles to make global digital markets as precise and dependable as physical systems. Built on Solana, our platform delivers deterministic execution, guaranteed inclusion, and low-latency performance—solving the foundational failures that cause transactions to miss and systems to collapse under pressure.

By placing high-performance compute close to where transactions happen and coordinating execution through our advanced scheduling engine, we empower developers to build scalable applications and give institutions the reliability they demand. We believe financial infrastructure should behave like physics: fast, reliable, and predictable—every time, without exception.

As a Senior Validator Engineer, you will spearhead our engineering efforts surrounding the Solana Validator (both Agave and Firedancer), driving the innovation and implementation of next-generation high-performance distributed systems. You will join a highly proficient team of core engineers who have all contributed to foundational network components.

Backend Engineer (Hyperliquid Focus)

Location: Remote (EMEA Region Only) Type: Full-Time

Compensation: €90K - €130K

We are hiring on behalf of our client who are on a mission to simplify multi-chain DeFi for financial institutions, fintechs, and service providers. Their team is building a unified infrastructure layer that provides seamless access to on-chain liquidity across all major blockchains, enabling high-performance same-chain and cross-chain swaps. They are a passionate, remote-first team dedicated to making complex decentralized technologies accessible and building a fairer, more transparent world.

They are looking for a Backend Developer with a deep interest in the Hyperliquid ecosystem to join their engineering team. This is a pure backend role—no frontend or design work is required. You will focus on building the infrastructure that allows them to distribute programmatic trading features (such as TWAP and perps) to the broader DeFi ecosystem.

Location Note: This position is strictly open to candidates currently located in the EMEA region.

What you’ll do:

Senior Backend Engineer (Intents & Order Infrastructure)

Location: Remote - Based in EMEA regions
compensation: $130K - $165K

We are simplifying multi-chain DeFi for traditional financial institutions, fintechs, and service providers. Our platform offers a unified API to access all on-chain liquidity across major blockchains, ensuring the best prices for same-chain and cross-chain swaps. We are a passionate, remote-first team on a mission to enable a fairer, more decentralized world by making complex blockchain technologies accessible to everyone.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to lead the development and scaling of our core off-chain coordination service. This is a critical infrastructure role, as the Order Server acts as the central hub for the entire Intent lifecycle—from quote aggregation and validation to real-time broadcasting and cross-chain status tracking.

In this role, you will build secure, high-throughput systems using TypeScript and NestJS that allow applications to discover competitive quotes while protecting the network from fraudulent orders. This position is vital for the success of our solver-based architecture and requires a deep focus on security, performance, and reliability.

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