Remote Financial AI Researcher & Evaluation Scientist

Joblet-AI; Dubai; Remote; AED 734,000 - 918,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Performance-based bonuses

Remote-first workplace

Health insurance reimbursement

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Finance Research, to define and advance AI-powered financial reasoning. You’ll work across language models, agentic systems, and enterprise finance to build evaluation frameworks and measure AI performance on real-world workflows.

Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams to translate complex financial problems into rigorous research questions, datasets, and benchmarks.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Finance, Economics, Financial Engineering or related field (PhD preferred).
• Deep domain expertise in finance areas such as investment research, risk, corporate finance or analytics.
• Experience building evaluation frameworks or conducting rigorous finance research.
• Ability to translate real-world financial problems into measurable research questions and criteria.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills; proven problem-solving across multidisciplinary domains.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with experience in research reports or thought leadership.
• Experience in collaborative, cross-functional research, engineering and product environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve evaluation frameworks for AI agents in finance, including benchmarks and rubrics.
• Conduct original research on financial reasoning and workflow automation to improve AI performance.
• Develop datasets and benchmark environments for enterprise finance challenges.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams to evaluate finance-focused models.
• Analyze model behavior and trends to generate actionable research priorities.
• Publish internal research findings and best practices for AI in finance.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Translate complex problems into tests

Education

PhD in Finance or related field

MBA, CFA or equivalent considered

Tools

Python

SQL

ML frameworks

Job description

micro1 is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Finance Research, to define and advance AI-powered financial reasoning. You’ll work across language models, agentic systems, and enterprise finance to build evaluation frameworks and measure AI performance on real-world workflows.

Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams to translate complex financial problems into rigorous research questions, datasets, and benchmarks.