AI Research Scientist for the Alpha Engine

Fionics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Fionics, based in New York, is hiring AI research scientists to work at the core of its alpha-research process. This is a high-priority build with upstream impact across trading and research platforms.

You will advance foundational ML and reinforcement learning techniques, contribute hands-on engineering work, and collaborate with a team of serious researchers to craft robust models using real market data and scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Strong foundational machine learning across pre-training and post-training.
• Reinforcement learning relevant to financial problems.
• Hands-on and engineering-strong with coding and ML modelling tasks.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to alpha research by developing scalable ML models.
• Collaborate on production-worthy ML systems and data pipelines.
• Explain complex research outputs clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Foundational ML

Reinforcement Learning

Engineering mindset

Strong communication

Education

PhD preferred

Exceptional non-PhD considered

Tools

Python

TensorFlow

PyTorch

NumPy

Job description

Fionics, based in New York, is hiring AI research scientists to work at the core of its alpha-research process. This is a high-priority build with upstream impact across trading and research platforms.

You will advance foundational ML and reinforcement learning techniques, contribute hands-on engineering work, and collaborate with a team of serious researchers to craft robust models using real market data and scalable infrastructure.