About Alka Intelligence
We are an asset management startup building a proprietary reasoning engine to automate fundamental analysis. We are building Alka Arbiter, a system capable of ingesting vast, unstructured market datasets and transforming them into clear, risk-weighted investment mandates. Unlike standard AI wrappers, our engine is designed to show its work, creating a fully auditable record of why a decision was made. We are looking for builders to help us bridge the gap between stochastic AI models and the rigorous reliability required to manage fiduciary capital.
Locations: San Francisco, CA
Role Status: Future Pipeline / General Interest / Advisory
Role Preview: The below are current v0.1 drafts for the roles we will be looking for in the near future
Interpretable Causality Researcher: https://shorturl.at/hZymM
Stateful World Model Researcher: https://shorturl.at/kV7kp
The Pipeline
If you are reading this, you likely encountered our Software Engineering roles on Wellfound. If your expertise lies in pure research or research advisory, and you are more interested in mapping the territory than laying the tracks, you belong here.
At Alka, Research and Engineering are intellectual sparring partners. Our engineers build the infrastructure, but our researchers tell them where it should go. We are actively scouting for academics, applied researchers, and senior advisors who can help us anticipate the next major paradigm shift in agentic AI.
Whether you are interested in a full-time research position down the line or a part-time advisory role today, we want to connect with you if you specialize in:
Ecosystem Intelligence: Tracking emergent orchestration frameworks and reasoning models before they hit the mainstream.
Agentic Ontology: Designing the cognitive logic, meta-prompts, and deterministic validation loops for autonomous agents.
Systemic Risk & Assurance: Breaking AI systems, identifying hallucination vectors, and building fiduciary-grade guardrails.
How to Initiate Contact:
Skip the standard cover letter. To enter our research and advisory pipeline, please submit a brief introduction containing:
Your Capacity: Let us know if you are looking for a full-time research trajectory or a part-time advisory position.
Show Your Work: Provide links to your Google Scholar, GitHub, Substack, published papers, or open-source frameworks. Let your history speak for itself.
Short Answer: Briefly describe a recent moment where a new piece of research, a framework, or an experiment fundamentally shattered your previous mental model about AI agents. What was your assumption, what broke it, and how did your thinking change? (Max 300 words).
Skills Required
- Academic, applied research, or senior advisory background in AI or related fields
- Specialization in Ecosystem Intelligence, Agentic Ontology, or Systemic Risk & Assurance
- Provide links to Google Scholar, GitHub, Substack, published papers, or open-source frameworks
- Submit a short answer (max 300 words) describing a research moment that changed your thinking about AI agents
- State capacity: indicate interest in full-time research trajectory or part-time advisory role
- Location: San Francisco, CA (role listing/location stated)
What We Do
ALKU is a specialized consulting and staffing firm headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts. It connects organizations with senior-level, niche consultants and provides consulting, direct-hire, and executive-search services. Its expertise spans technology and enterprise IT, healthcare IT, life sciences, engineering, government, and related regulated industries, helping clients address critical business needs with skilled resources and workforce-management solutions across complex projects and long-term engagements.
