Generalist Founding Team Palo Alto

Arcalabs; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Daily breakfast, coffee, and snacks

Complimentary fitness center access

Job summary

ArcaLabs in Palo Alto is looking for a versatile Generalist who can navigate multiple tasks across software development, customer engagement, and operational needs. Ideal candidates will have a strong interest in finance and practical coding skills. The compensation range is $150K to $240K, with full benefits and equity opportunities.

The role provides a unique experience at an early-stage startup, where team members can significantly impact the evolution of AI-driven solutions within the finance sector.

Qualifications

• Real interest in finance (markets, M&A, private capital).
• Ability to ship code without relying on engineering.

Responsibilities

• Ship code into the agent runtime or workflow tools.
• Sit on customer calls and contribute.
• Run pilots end-to-end and bring them to revenue.
• Write product specs and customer briefs.
• Pick up operational tasks as needed.

Skills

Interest in finance

Ability to ship code

Product instinct

Comfort in front of customers

Startup experience

Banking or equity research background

Job description

ArcaLabs builds AI agents that run sell-side workflows for investment banks and PE funds. We're a small founding team in Palo Alto: ex-bankers, ex-fintech founders, and senior engineers from the team behind Arcafeed (acquired). We are the official FactSet AI Partner.

About the role

We're hiring a Generalist: the kind of person who can ship code on Monday, jump on an MD's customer call on Tuesday, write a product spec on Wednesday, and put together a board update slide on Thursday. This is the highest-leverage seat at an early-stage startup, and the role we'd give to the kind of person who built and exited their own thing in college.

You’ll work directly with the founders, pick up whatever the company needs that week, and own outcomes you wouldn’t get to touch for years anywhere else.

What you'll do

• Ship code into the agent runtime, the workflow tools, or the customer dashboard whenever engineering needs another set of hands.
• Sit on customer calls with MDs, partners, and CIOs. You’ll be in the room and expected to contribute, not take notes.
• Run pilots end-to-end: scope the workflow, build it, demo it, and bring it to revenue.
• Write product specs, customer briefs, and the occasional investor update.
• Pick up whatever else falls through the cracks: recruiting pipelines, ops, tooling, data analysis, marketing assets.

You might be a fit if you

• Have a real interest in finance (markets, M&A, private capital), and want to spend the next several years building inside it.
• Can ship code. Doesn’t have to be your superpower, but you should be able to commit a feature or fix a bug without flagging engineering.
• Have a product instinct: you can hold a customer’s workflow in your head, write a spec, and recognize when a feature is wrong before it ships.
• Are comfortable in front of customers (a banker, a CIO, a procurement lead), and can hold a conversation about both their book and our system.
• Have built and shipped something real on your own. A startup, a project, a product, a paper, a podcast: anything where you owned the outcome.
• Founder, exited founder, or first-employee experience at an early-stage startup.
• Banking, PE, or equity research background; or a CS background with a strong markets hobby.
• You once explained a 10-K to a friend and they actually understood it.

Compensation

$150K – $240K + meaningful equity. Full benefits and daily breakfast, coffee, and snacks, plus complimentary fitness center access in Palo Alto. The role flexes title and scope based on what you’re best at, and the offer reflects that.

About ArcaLabs

ArcaLabs is the official FactSet AI Partner, building AI agents that run sell-side workflows for investment banks and PE funds. We're the team behind Arcafeed (acquired) and we're hiring the founding squad in Palo Alto. We believe AI will widen, not narrow, the set of people who can do high-end finance work. We want to ship that future.

Equal opportunity

ArcaLabs is an equal opportunity employer. We hire based on merit, and we accommodate applicants with disabilities. If you need accommodation during the hiring process, email [e-mail] .