Associate Applied AI - Deep Learning/Time Series

Goldman Sachs (lateral); New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs in New York, NY seeks a deeply hands-on AI Research Associate to lead the design, training, and evaluation of deep learning models for financial time series. This individual contributor role covers framing questions, curating data, designing architectures, running large-scale experiments, and partnering with quant and engineering teams to productionize models.

You will contribute to a fast-moving research space, bringing rigorous evaluation as well as generalizable abstractions

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and train modern deep learning architectures for forecasting, representation learning, and generative modelling of financial time series, including CNNs, Transformers, and related models.
• Build and benchmark time-series specialized architectures such as WaveNet, N-BEATS/HiTS, DeepAR, PatchTST, and compare to classical econometric methods like ARIMA and GARCH.
• Train at scale across GPU clusters and cloud with distributed data parallel, fully sharded data parallel, mixed precision, and hyperparameter search; optimize inference paths.
• Develop robust evaluation frameworks for finance data (walk-forward, cross-validation, regime analysis, uncertainty quantification, and data snooping controls).
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers and engineers to translate model outputs into alpha signals, portfolio ideas, and production-ready tooling.
• Contribute reusable models, datasets, benchmarks, and tooling to a shared research platform; mentor junior researchers and engineers.

Job description

Job Description

WHAT WE DO:

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don't just make things - we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

Engineering, which is comprised of our Technology Division and global strategists groups, is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here.

AI RESEARCH AT GOLDMAN SACHS:

The AI Research group is the firm's dedicated research organization, operating at the intersection of frontier machine learning and quantitative finance. We build, train, and rigorously evaluate deep learning models on some of the richest financial time series data in the industry - market microstructure, cross-asset pricing, macroeconomic indicators, transaction flows, and alternative data.

Our mandate is to advance the state of the art in sequence modelling and probabilistic forecasting for noisy, non-stationary, low signal-to-noise financial data, and to deliver that research as a firmwide platform that quantitative researchers, strategists, and engineering teams across the organization can build on. We operate with research rigor and engineering discipline - every model we ship is reproducible, benchmarked against strong baselines, and evaluated under realistic out-of-sample and out-of-regime conditions.

THE ROLE:

Title: AI Research - Associate Location : New York, NY Division : Engineering - AI Research

We are seeking a deeply hands-on researcher to lead the design, training, and evaluation of deep learning models for financial time series. This is an individual contributor role for someone who is equally comfortable deriving a likelihood, writing a distributed training loop across a multi-node GPU cluster, and defending an evaluation methodology to a room of quantitative researchers.

You will own research problems end to end: framing the question, curating and engineering the data, designing the model architecture, running large-scale training experiments, building the evaluation harness, and partnering with quant and engineering teams to bring models into production. Because our output serves multiple desks and asset classes, you will be expected to build models and abstractions that generalize - not one-off solutions.

This is a fast-moving research space. You thrive in ambiguity, you are skeptical of results that look too good, and you bring the same rigor to evaluation methodology that you bring to model design.

WHAT YOU WILL BE WORKING ON:

• Model research and development: Design, implement, and train modern deep learning architectures for forecasting, representation learning, and generative modelling of financial time series - including CNNs and temporal convolutional networks, Transformers and attention-based sequence models, autoencoders, GANs, diffusion models, graph neural networks, Bayesian networks, and reinforcement learning.
• Time series specialization: Build and benchmark against specialized sequence architectures including WaveNet , N-BEATS / N- HiTS , DeepAR , PatchTST , and Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs), and rigorously baseline them against classical econometric methods such as ARIMA, GARCH, Kalman filters, and state space models.
• Training at scale: Own large-scale model training across the firm's GPU clusters and cloud compute environment - distributed data parallel (DDP), fully sharded data parallel (FSDP), mixed precision, hyperparameter search, and experiment tracking. Optimize inference through quantization, distillation, and ONNX-based deployment paths.
• Evaluation and validation: Build robust evaluation frameworks tailored to financial data - walk-forward and purged cross-validation, embargo periods, regime-conditional analysis, uncertainty quantification and calibration, ablations, and significance testing that properly accounts for multiple hypothesis testing and data snooping.
• Applied quantitative research: Partner with quantitative researchers and strategists across desks on alpha research, signal generation, portfolio optimization, and backtesting , translating model outputs into economically meaningful, risk-adjusted, capacity-aware signals.
• Firmwide research platform: Contribute reusable models, datasets, benchmarks and tooling to a shared research platform that serves multiple desks and asset classes, raising the quality and reproducibility bar across the firm.
• Technical leadership: Mentor junior researchers and engineers