KX

Time-aware data platform powering AI insights

Developer Relations Engineer

Developer Relations & AdvocacyConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeNew York, NY, USA$125k - $200k

About the Job

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in solutions engineering, solution architecture, or developer relations, building credible data-heavy solutions, demos, and prototypes.
Proficiency in kdb+/q, including handling low-latency time-series data, designing queries, building efficient data pipelines, using attributes, and optimizing data storage and retrieval workflows.
Strong Python and SQL skills.
Comfort with Kafka streaming, Docker containers, and basic Kubernetes.
Fluency with market data, including tick and reference data, order book structure, and backtesting workflows; ability to reason about latency-critical versus intraday and end-of-day decision timeliness.
Understanding of tickerplant, RDB, IDB, and HDB architectures.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Ability to present, teach, write, demonstrate, create social media content, and interact with and grow the developer community.

Responsibilities

Design and ship repeatable standard demos across capital markets workflows, emphasizing value-driven outcomes such as faster signals, accelerated algo research-to-production, and enhanced alpha capture.
Package each use case with a technical storytelling deck, live demo, persona-specific talking points, video recording, and click-through demos; centralize access and enable ad hoc deployment with minimal setup.
Create smaller, high-leverage assets covering cross-cutting topics, including AI agent integration such as MCP, lakehouse interoperability, and GPU/NVIDIA acceleration.
Partner with Product Management, Product Marketing, and Presales/TAM to align messaging to personas and verticals, overcome market challenges, collect feedback, and improve the framework.
Evangelize and enable internal and external communities by running webinars, training sessions, and conference talks; writing blogs and tutorials; and curating a social media presence.

Desired Qualifications

PyKX experience.
Direct capital markets experience, such as quant, trader, market maker, or market risk management experience.
Experience with GPU acceleration, the NVIDIA ecosystem, AI agent patterns including MCP, RAG/vector search, and lakehouse integrations.
Familiarity with regulated capital markets workflows and surveillance scenarios.

About KX

KX software powers the time-aware data-driven decisions that enable fast-moving companies to outpace competitors, realizing the full potential of their AI investments. The KX platform delivers transformational value by addressing data challenges related to completeness, timeliness and efficiency, ensuring companies understand change over time and can achieve faster, more accurate insights at any scale, cost-effectively.

KX is essential to the operations of the world's top investment banks, aerospace and defence, high-tech manufacturing, healthcare and life sciences, automotive and fleet telematics organizations. The company has established offices and a robust customer base across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Overview Of The Role

KX is hiring a Developer Advocate. We’re expanding the KX Developer Relations (DevRel) team to drive reusable technical enablement and community growth with hands-on content that maps directly to core capital markets use-cases. The main deliverable is the technical enablement of sellers, presales engineers, customers, and community members to experience how KX turns historical, intraday, and real-time market data into decisions that drive value and capture alpha.

Key Responsibilities

Design and ship repeatable standard demos across the capital markets workflow, emphasizing value driven outcomes like faster signal, accelerated algo research-to-prod, and enhanced alpha capture.
Package each use-case with a technical storytelling deck, live demo, persona-specific talking points, video recording, and click-through demos; centralize access and enable ad-hoc deployment with minimal setup.
Cover cross-cutting topics with smaller, high-leverage assets (deck + demo + blog/webinar): AI agent integration (e.g., MCP), lakehouse interoperability, GPU/NVIDIA acceleration.
Partner tightly with Product Management, Product Marketing, and Presales/TAM to align essential messaging to personas and verticals (hedge fund, market maker, asset manager), overcome market challenges, collect feedback, and improve the framework.
Evangelize and enable the community (Internal & External) by running webinars, training sessions, conference talks, blogs/tutorials, and curating a strong social media presence.

Essential Experience

5+ years in solutions engineering/architecting or developer relations building credible, data-heavy solutions, demos, and prototypes.
Kdb+/q proficiency: experience handling low-latency time-series data, designing queries, building efficient data pipelines (data engineering), using attributes, and optimizing data storage/retrieval workflows
Strong Python (PyKX a plus) and SQL
Comfort with streaming (Kafka), containers (Docker), basic Kubernetes

Skills

Fluency with market data (tick/reference data), order book structure, and backtesting workflows; ability to reason about latency-critical vs. intraday/EOD decision-timeliness.
Understanding of tick architectures (tickerplant/RDB/IDB/HDB)
Experience with cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
DevRel: you can present, teach, write, demo, create social media content, and interact with and grow the developer community.

Preferred Qualifications

Direct capital markets experience (quant, trader, market maker, market risk management, etc)
Experience with GPU acceleration and NVIDIA ecosystem, AI agent patterns (incl. MCP), RAG/vector search, and lakehouse integrations.
Familiarity with capital markets regulated workflows and surveillance scenarios.

Location & Workplace Type

New York Hybrid working model based out of (Insert location/working model)

Salary Range

$125,000.00 -$200,000.00 dependant on experience

Why Choose KX

Data Driven: We lead with instinct and follow fact.
Naturally Curious: We lean in, listen and learn fast.
All In: We take ownership, take on challenges and give it our all.

Benefits

Competitive Salary
Individually tailored training and skills development
Private healthcare package and Employee Assistance Programme
Enhanced maternity and paternity package
Wellness Days and Volunteer Days

About the Company

KX

Time-aware data platform powering AI insights

KX provides a data and analytics foundation that delivers time-aware, complete, and timely data to power AI-enabled decision making. It collects and harmonizes large datasets, tracks how data changes over time, and runs scalable analytics and dashboards optimized for AI workloads. This helps fast-moving organizations generate faster and more accurate insights at any scale with cost efficiency. Its focus on change-over-time data and scalable performance helps sectors like finance, aerospace, manufacturing, healthcare, automotive, and fleet telematics maximize AI value and outpace competitors.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Newry, United Kingdom
Founded: 1993

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