Kirin describes itself as a research and trading operation in alternative investment markets, but the tech stack and project list reveal a much broader mandate. The hiring mix is heavily skewed toward marketing (36) and engineering (20) relative to the core trading function, with active projects spanning payments infrastructure, AI services (chat, image/video generation), a smart ring, and consumer hardware — suggesting the company is building toward a multi-product fintech/AI consumer platform, not pure quant trading. Adoption of FastAPI and tRPC alongside heavy ML tooling (PyTorch, TensorFlow, LoRA, ComfyUI) indicates rapid iteration on AI-generated content and scalable backends.
Kirin is a 11–50 person firm headquartered in New York, founded in 2025. The public positioning centers on quantitative research and trading in alternative investment markets, with a team spanning mathematicians, software engineers, and data scientists. Active projects reveal operations across fintech infrastructure (payments and analytics), AI service development (large language models, image and video generation), consumer hardware (smart ring, flagship product), and quantitative strategy development for US equities and cryptocurrency. The company is actively hiring across nine countries, with particular focus on marketing and engineering talent, and operates with decelerating hiring velocity.
Core ML: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LoRA, ComfyUI. Backends: AWS, FastAPI, tRPC, React Router. Collaboration: Slack, Zoom, Google Workspace, ClickUp. Design: Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro.
Projects include quantitative trading strategies for equities and crypto, payments and analytics infrastructure, scalable AI services (chat, image/video generation), a smart ring, consumer hardware, and data pipelines with version control and reproducibility.
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