Entrepreneurial AI Researcher

Reposted 22 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in US
Remote
Mid level
Financial Services • PropTech • Quantitative Trading
The Role
Conduct original research in AI for financial applications, focusing on models, evaluation, and collaboration with engineers to turn ideas into production.
Summary Generated by Built In

Join a small, fast-moving team where you’ll explore, invent, and discover.
We’re training foundational models for financial applications on unique, multimodal datasets.

What you’ll do


-Formulate and pursue original research agendas (reasoning, tool connectivity, robustness, alignment, data/compute efficiency).
-Follow Ideas to PoC to MVP to training to validation, owning all steps of the process with deep collaboration with Research Engineers (see other open role).
-Build rigorous evaluation suites through simulated environments and real time evaluation.
-Prototype fast with real data; partner with Research Engineers to take promising ideas to production.

You might be a fit if you


-Are a self-starter who thrives on coding autonomy and project collaboration within small-team, high velocity environments.
-Have strong ML research chops (theory and practice), and write clean, reproducible code (e.g. PyTorch/JAX).
-Think in systems: data quality, scaling laws, evaluation, and deployment constraints - not just model internals.
-Prefer clear principles, low ego and prefer collaboration over titles and politics. Helpful backgrounds (any of the following)

-Frontier labs experience (e.g., Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind); or

-Novel discovery through published work (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR); or

-Led research in an applied setting (startups, open-source, or products at scale); or

-Standout independent achievement (notable OSS, benchmarks, or widely used methods).

Research areas we’re excited about


-Efficient training (HRM, distillation, sparse/MoE, FSDP, etc.).
-Reasoning and tool use (automated trading and agentic interaction with data sources).
-Multimodal Inputs and Outputs (multiple forms of text and time-series both in and out).

What we offer


-A well-funded trading firm expanding into AI research - your ideas set direction and standards.
-Real ownership from hypothesis to deployment.
-Competitive base with meaningful upside tied to research impact.
-A culture optimized for deep work, fast learning, and doing the right thing.

If this sounds like you, apply.

Skills Required

  • Strong machine learning research skills (theory and practice)
  • Experience with PyTorch or JAX
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
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The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
20 Employees
Year Founded: 2025

What We Do

Turning market data into decisive action

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