Equilibrium Energy
2025-Present
Head of Product, Platform
Lead product strategy and roadmap for the platform powering AI-native trading, optimization, and operations across physical and financial power markets.
Equilibrium EnergyAI leader across power, investing, and enterprise systems.
Product, platform, and systems work.
Proving agents work where the stakes are highest.
I build AI products that drive top-line impact in regulated industries and help future-proof financial markets, with work spanning power, healthcare, enterprise platforms, and investing systems.
10+ years building AI systems
Power markets, investing, and healthcare
Product, engineering, and operating leadership
Current Roles
Two operating fronts, one throughline.
The common thread is building AI systems that do real work: tools for traders and operators, and investing infrastructure that turns research into repeatable portfolio action.
Intelligent Alpha
2024-Present
Cofounder
Help shape an AI-native asset manager spanning public ETFs, private funds, SMAs, benchmarks, and multi-agent investing systems built for institutional depth.
Intelligent AlphaExperience
A career built around making AI usable at scale.
2025-Present
Head of Product, Platform
Equilibrium Energy
Own product direction for platform and agentic AI capabilities connecting research, engineering, and commercial outcomes in power markets.
2024-Present
Cofounder
Intelligent Alpha
Drive product strategy and technical architecture for multi-agent systems that perform equity research and portfolio management.
2021-2024
Director of AI Product Engineering
UnitedHealthcare
Led AI research and engineering work across AI assistants, developer knowledge, marketing intelligence, governance, and AI quality systems.
2020-2021
Technical Product Manager, AI Platforms
Optum
Defined product vision, roadmap, and value proposition for an enterprise AI platform used to develop, deploy, and operate machine learning systems.
2016-2020
Senior Data Scientist
Optum
Built production machine learning systems in healthcare, managed ML engineers, and developed models for disease prediction, adherence, and asthma risk.
Selected Impact
The work tends to land where technical systems meet business leverage.
- Built the platform product management function from the ground up and now lead the product team and operating rhythm at Equilibrium.
- Owned AI scope and delivery for Medicare & Retirement call center assistants at UnitedHealthcare, with expected annual value of $4M.
- Created a marketing intelligence solution at UnitedHealth Group that delivered another $4M in value through multi-agent AI systems.
- Built an internal AI governance product covering 400+ projects and created UnitedHealthcare's first federated AI quality board.
- Led an enterprise AI platform at Optum that achieved 263% active user growth and 127% improvement in monthly engagement.
AI platform strategy
Roadmaps, internal developer products, platform capabilities, and the connective tissue between research, engineering, and production use.
Agentic systems
Practical multi-agent workflows for trading, research, knowledge work, and operating teams that need speed with judgment.
Enterprise AI
Governance, quality, safety, stakeholder alignment, and delivery inside large organizations where AI has to be useful and defensible.
Markets and infrastructure
Power, optimization, portfolio construction, and the software layer where intelligence starts to shape real economic decisions.
Public Footprint
A few places the work has shown up publicly.
Talks, panels, demos, company pages, and older writing give a more complete picture than a single bio paragraph can.
2025
Climate Week NYC public PowerOS demo
Equilibrium announced that its CEO would give the first public demo of PowerOS at AWS's Climate Tech Demo Series in New York on September 22, 2025, showing how traders and quants can build and test end-to-end portfolio strategies.
2023
SIAM panel on the future of digital health
Josh was listed as a panelist from UnitedHealthcare on The Future of Digital Health during the 2023 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining in Minneapolis.
2019
Databricks Spark + AI Summit healthcare event
Databricks listed Josh Firminger of Optum as a speaker on Be Patient: Building Advanced Analytics with the Patient at the Heart of the Solution at Spark + AI Summit.
2026
Public team page at Intelligent Alpha
Intelligent Alpha's about page currently lists Josh Firminger as CTO as part of the team behind Investor X and the firm's AI-powered investment system.
2025
Intelligent Alpha GPT ticker on Nasdaq
Intelligent Alpha's public ETF materials now show the Intelligent Alpha Atlas ETF trading on Nasdaq under the ticker GPT, extending the firm's public footprint beyond private investing infrastructure.
2024
Nasdaq opening bell with Intelligent Alpha
Nasdaq's event page lists Intelligent Alpha visiting the MarketSite in Times Square and describes the firm as the first asset manager built to use large-language AI models for investment selection.
2023
Build.Better...Faster on Substack
Josh's Substack, Build.Better...Faster, publishes product and AI writing including posts like Gitlab Maturity For AI and AI so easy, a caveman can do it.
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