Autonomous AI Quant Research Scientist

Numerai; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Numerai is building a self-improving hedge fund powered by AI. We run a quant fund from thousands of ML models, increasingly created by AI. Our next step is a new team focused on AI that autonomously conducts quantitative research and builds practical tools for researchers and engineers.

You will own Autoresearch, improve hypothesis generation and experiments, and create scalable AI systems that turn signals into portfolios. Equity is significant; join a fast-moving, bureaucracy-free environment.

Qualifications

• Deep, current expertise in modern machine learning, with emphasis on LLMs — training, fine-tuning, RL, inference, agents, or evaluation.
• A track record of frontier work: strong publications, notable open source, or systems you built that were ahead of their time.
• Demonstrated ability to take an ambitious research idea all the way to something that runs reliably and gets used.
• Strong software engineering. You write code other people can build on.
• Excellent written communication, and the intellectual honesty to report negative results clearly.
• Genuine curiosity about markets, even if you have no finance background.

Responsibilities

• Improve Autoresearch: make machines generate hypotheses worth testing and run experiments correctly.
• Develop tools to extract structure from unstructured text and filings at scale.
• Automate parts of the research and engineering workflow to reduce human bottlenecks.
• Design evaluations to measure impact on portfolio decisions and ensure reproducibility.

Skills

ML research

LLMs

Software engineering

Written communication

Markets curiosity

Tools

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

Job description

Numerai is building a self-improving hedge fund powered by AI. We run a quant fund from thousands of ML models, increasingly created by AI. Our next step is a new team focused on AI that autonomously conducts quantitative research and builds practical tools for researchers and engineers.

You will own Autoresearch, improve hypothesis generation and experiments, and create scalable AI systems that turn signals into portfolios. Equity is significant; join a fast-moving, bureaucracy-free environment.