Member of Technical Staff - Finance Researcher

🚀 Company Description:

Halluminate is a data research lab building benchmarks and RL environments to push the frontier of AI in knowledge work.

Our first area of focus is economically valuable workflows in financial services and consulting, but we are rapidly expanding into adjacent verticals.

📋 Role Description:

Halluminate is looking to hire an experienced Finance expert to join our research team to do Applied AI Research in the Financial Services domains.

The responsibilities of this role include:

This is an IC role focused on driving and defining the frontier of what AI looks like in Finance.

Define and publish taxonomy of AI tasks/workflows in finance, and expanding 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, priorities, etc.

Translating 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

Working with research team to define state of the art benchmarks, leaderboards, new research directions, etc.

Necessary Skills Include:

4+ years of real-world experience in banking, consulting, strategic finance, investing, etc.

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 mass audience of stakeholders from researchers to finance industry leaders

Product sense to interact between engineering and research team to improve platform and processes

Detail oriented execution across projects, technical and problem solving skills to build and QA RL tasks

Fluency in use of LLM/Agents in your daily finance work (automating spreadsheet modeling, building evals, testing latest products in finance category)

⚕️ Benefits

Fully covered healthcare coverage for yourself and subsidized for dependents (Medical, Dental, Vision)

Relocation Stipend ($10k+)

401k (4% match)

Food: Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner while working

Health: Free gym membership

Transportation: Free transportation to and from the office (Ubers, Waymo)

Visa Sponsorship (ex. H1B)

🌆 Location

Full-Time In Person in San Francisco

Compensation

Base: $215k - $275k

Equity: 0.10 - 0.20%