Finance Research Expert

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 41,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs and enterprises train foundational models and agents. We are seeking a Finance Research Expert contractor to write finance questions with sourced answers, based on US public filings.

You will work remotely, across global time zones, reading 10-K/10-Q/8-K materials and related disclosures, ensuring accuracy and clarity in English.

Qualifications

• Hands-on work with US filings and familiarity with US GAAP.
• Experience in equity research or investment analysis backgrounds is preferred.
• Strong written English with ability to craft precise questions from filings.

Responsibilities

• Write finance research questions about real US public companies based on filings and investor materials.
• Ensure questions point to verifiable figures in filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy, earnings releases).
• Compare documents to resolve discrepancies and use the latest amendments or versions.

Job description

Pay: $30 - $85/hour

Required Skills
Equity Research
FP&A
Corporate Finance
Accounting or Audit
Investor Relations
Credit Analysis
About micro1
micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.

Role Title: Finance Research Expert

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

Opportunity Snapshot

Pay: $30 - $60 per hour

Time per task: around 4 to 8 hours

Location: Remote, worldwide

You’ll need: Hands-on experience reading US SEC filings and familiarity with US GAAP

Your tasks: Write finance research questions with a verified, sourced answer, and check each one against what AI models answer

Scope of Work

You will work on questions about real US public companies. Each question points to information that sits in long filings or IR materials, or that requires comparing several of them to find the right answer.

Write questions that require finding a specific figure in a 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy statement, earnings release or investor presentation.
Write questions where two documents show different numbers and the answer depends on knowing which one is correct (for example, original vs. restated figures, or adjusted vs. reported).
Pay attention to period and document version: the right fiscal year, the right filing, the latest amended version.
Test each question against current AI models and keep only the ones they answer incorrectly.
Rewrite questions when the wording allows more than one valid answer.

What we’re looking for

Hands-on work with US filings in one of these backgrounds:

Equity research or investment analysis
(sell-side or buy-side) covering US companies.
Investment banking or corporate development
(M&A, equity capital markets), with experience in deal filings, prospectuses, ownership history and subsidiary structures.
Credit or restructuring analysis
, with experience in credit agreements, bond terms and bankruptcy filings.
SEC reporting or audit
(Big 4 audit, corporate reporting), with experience in restatements, footnotes and how figures change across filings.
Corporate law or due diligence
(securities law, KYC, investigations), with experience tracing entities, executives and related parties across records.

You should also be comfortable reading long filings, including footnotes and tables, and have clear written English.