Member of Technical Staff - Finance Researcher

About the role

Halluminate is looking to hire an experienced Finance expert to join our research team to do Applied AI Research in the Financial Services domains. This is an individual-contributor role focused on driving and defining the frontier of what AI looks like in Finance.

Responsibilities

• Define and publish taxonomy of AI tasks/workflows in finance, and expand that playbook to other industries (consulting, insurance, accounting, etc.) to broader ecosystem and community.
• Talk with real-world financial services leaders at major banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, etc. to get a boots-on-the-ground report on AI adoption, drawbacks, capabilities, buying decisions, and priorities.
• Translate real-world insights on AI capabilities into our roadmap for RL environment building within the core team.
• Drive innovation of our RL environment problem-building process with engineering and research teams—feedback directly contributing to core product and platform improvements.
• Work with the research team to define state-of-the-art benchmarks, leaderboards, and new research directions.

Requirements

• 4+ years of real-world experience in banking, consulting, strategic finance, investing, or related fields.
• Deep mission alignment to revolutionize the way Finance Knowledge Work is done in the world.
• Ability to analyze massive amounts of information and communicate it in a clean and presentable way for a mass audience of stakeholders, from researchers to finance industry leaders.
• Product sense to interact between engineering and research teams to improve platform and processes.
• Detail-oriented execution across projects, technical and problem-solving skills to build and QA RL tasks.
• Fluency in the use of LLMs/Agents in your daily finance work (automating spreadsheet modeling, building evals, testing latest products in the finance category).

Benefits

• Fully covered healthcare coverage for yourself and subsidized for dependents (Medical, Dental, Vision).
• Relocation Stipend ($10k+).
• 401k (4% match).
• Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner while working.
• Free gym membership.
• Free transportation to and from the office (Ubers, Waymo).
• Visa Sponsorship (e.g., H1B).

Pay

Base: $180k - $225k
Equity: 0.15 - 0.30%

Schedule

Full-Time, In Person in San Francisco