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Artificial Intelligence Researcher

New York $1M - $2.5M Permanent

Top-tier systematic trading firm hiring an ML researcher to push the firm's alpha research beyond classical statistical methods.


Compensation

  • Base: $400K
  • Total Comp: $1M-2M
  • Structure: Base + Sign-on Bonus + P&L attachment + performance bonus


Role Description

  • Design, train, and deploy ML models (deep learning, NLP, reinforcement learning, or large-scale ensemble methods) for alpha generation across equities, futures, and other liquid markets
  • Own the full pipeline from research and backtesting to live production deployment
  • Mine large, noisy, non-stationary financial datasets to engineer features and signals that hold up out-of-sample
  • Collaborate with quant researchers, engineers, and traders to integrate ML-driven signals into existing systematic strategies


Ideal Candidate

  • 2 to 5 years of experience applying machine learning in a quantitative research, trading, or comparable high-stakes production environment
  • Strong foundations in statistics, applied ML, and time-series/panel data methods; healthy skepticism about overfitting in noisy financial data
  • Proficiency in Python; experience with large-scale data pipelines and model deployment infrastructure
  • PhD or 2 years of industry experience in ML, statistics, CS, or a related quantitative field a strong plus


Will wait up to 12 months non-compete.

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