Finance Specialist

Mercor; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Cincinnatus LLC invites you to join its GenAI team inside a leading AI lab, focusing on finance-oriented evaluation tasks to improve training data for foundational models.

You're an SME with 8+ years in finance, experienced in evaluating outputs against rubrics, and able to commit 35 hours/week, collaborating with engineers to design finance tasks and provide rigorous feedback. This W-2 role places you with the AI lab as part of their extended workforce.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of dedicated professional experience in finance at a top-tier organization.
• Hands-on experience evaluating AI model outputs against rubrics or structured scoring criteria.
• Clear career progression from Analyst to VP/Director.
• Ability to engage reliably for at least 35 hours/week during weekdays.
• Strong verbal and written communication, problem-solving and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps in financial reasoning, analysis, and decision-making.
• Design challenging, domain-relevant finance tasks and write accurate, well-reasoned solutions grounded in real financial practice.
• Evaluate AI model outputs against structured rubrics and provide clear feedback on correctness, judgment, and reasoning quality.
• Develop and refine evaluation guidelines and scoring rubrics specific to finance tasks.
• Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.

Skills

Finance domain expertise

LLM/AI evaluation experience

Career progression awareness

35+ hours/week availability

Communication and problem-solving

Job description

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models.

1. Overview

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We're seeking talented Finance subject‑matter experts (SMEs) with deep domain expertise and hands‑on experience evaluating AI model outputs against rubrics to bring rigor and real‑world financial judgment to our AI training data.

This is a W‑2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading AI Lab as part of their extended workforce.

2. Key Responsibilities

• Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps in financial reasoning, analysis, and decision‑making.
• Design challenging, domain‑relevant finance tasks and write accurate, well‑reasoned solutions grounded in real financial practice.
• Evaluate AI model outputs against structured rubrics and provide clear, written feedback on correctness, judgment, and reasoning quality.
• Develop and refine evaluation guidelines and scoring rubrics specific to finance tasks.
• Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.

3. Core Qualifications

• 8+ years of dedicated professional experience in finance (e.g., investment banking, asset management, corporate finance, financial advisory) at a recognized, top‑tier organization (e.g., Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, Fidelity, Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG, or equivalent).
• Prior hands‑on experience evaluating LLM/AI model outputs against rubrics or structured scoring criteria — mandatory; please describe this experience in your application.
• Demonstrable career progression (e.g., Analyst → Associate → VP/Director).
• Ability to engage reliably for at least 35 hours/week during weekdays.
• Verbal and written communication skills, problem‑solving skills, and interpersonal skills.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Cincinnatus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or any other legally protected characteristic.