AI, HFT and FinTech talent search
Great people change everything.
SYTalent is a specialist talent search firm for AI, HFT and FinTech. We hire the people who build and ship AI, from Heads of AI and AI architects to agentic AI and forward deployed engineers, alongside the quants, trading engineers and FinTech leaders who run modern financial businesses.
We search for the seats that decide what AI actually does in production, for AI-first startups, global capability centres (GCCs), banks, FinTechs and trading firms.
Agentic AI · LLMs · ML · Forward deployed
01 / Our practices
Six specialist practices.
Each practice is run by people who understand the systems, the desks and the talent market behind the role.
- 01AI & Agentic AIHeads of AI, AI architects, agentic AI and forward deployed engineers.→
- 02HFT & Proprietary TradingHigh-frequency trading, prop firms and trading leadership.→
- 03Quant & SystematicQuantitative research, systematic strategies, portfolio construction.→
- 04Trading TechnologyLow-latency engineering, infrastructure and platform leadership.→
- 05FinTech LeadershipFinTech co-founders, C-suite, product and engineering leadership.→
- 06Investment & Capital MarketsInvestment management, capital markets and family offices.→
02 / AI hiring
The AI seats we search for.
AI hiring is judged on production evidence, not titles: what a candidate shipped, how it was evaluated and what it cost to run. These are the seats we are briefed on most. See every AI role we hire for.
We hire for AI-first GCCs, AI startups and large companies implementing AI.
- 01Head of AI and Chief AI OfficerStrategy, platform, governance and model risk.→
- 02Enterprise AI architectAI platforms and reference architecture across the enterprise.→
- 03Agentic AI solution architectMulti-agent systems designed for real customer workflows.→
- 04Forward deployed engineerEngineers who ship AI inside the customer's business.→
- 05Agentic AI and AI engineersLLM applications, agents, RAG and evaluation in production.→
- 06AI in FinTech and bankingFraud, credit, collections and AI governance under RBI rules.→
- 07AI in tradingAgentic AI for research, execution and risk on trading desks.→
03 / Our process
Precision over process.
Our process is designed around one principle: understand the business deeply enough to know what good actually looks like. See how we run a search.
Diagnose
We define the mandate, the context and what success looks like in the first year.
Map
We search beyond databases, mapping named teams and adjacent industries to reach people who are not looking.
Assess
We evaluate research judgement, engineering depth and motivation before anyone reaches your panel.
Close
We manage offers, covenants and notice periods, protecting momentum through to start date.
04 / Markets
India is the engine. Asia and the Gulf are the reach.
We hire locally and across corridors, including Indian quant and engineering talent for Singapore, Hong Kong and Gulf desks.
The best hire is rarely the easiest person to find.
SYTalent
05 / Talent intelligence
Knowledge that earns the brief.
More than 140 guides on hiring, roles, markets and AI, the technology behind modern trading and financial infrastructure, written by the partners who run our searches.
- 01Software engineering and AI salaries in India 2027→
- 02AI jobs in India: roles, skills and pay→
- 03Cost to hire: India vs US, UK and Singapore→
- 04Funded and hiring: AI and FinTech companies that just raised→
- 05FinTech salaries in India 2027→
- 06HFT skills matrix→
- 07IIT placements 2026-27: HFT, quant and AI offers→
- 08FinTech roles in India: the complete map→
- 09Careers, interviews and hiring guides→
06 / What's next
Better teams build better markets.
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