Entrepreneurial AI Researcher

Join a small, fast-moving team where you’ll explore, invent, and discover. We’re training foundational models for financial applications on unique, multimodal datasets. ### What you’ll do * Formulate and pursue original research agendas (reasoning, tool connectivity, robustness, alignment, data/compute efficiency). \-Follow Ideas to PoC to MVP to training to validation, owning all steps of the process with deep collaboration with Research Engineers (see other open role). \-Build rigorous evaluation suites through simulated environments and real time evaluation. \-Prototype fast with real data; partner with Research Engineers to take promising ideas to production. ### You might be a fit if you * Are a self-starter who thrives on coding autonomy and project collaboration within small-team, high velocity environments. \-Have strong ML research chops (theory and practice), and write clean, reproducible code (e.g. PyTorch/JAX). \-Think in systems: data quality, scaling laws, evaluation, and deployment constraints - not just model internals. \-Prefer clear principles, low ego and prefer collaboration over titles and politics. Helpful backgrounds (any of the following) * Frontier labs experience (e.g., Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind); or * Novel discovery through published work (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR); or * Led research in an applied setting (startups, open-source, or products at scale); or * Standout independent achievement (notable OSS, benchmarks, or widely used methods). ### Research areas we’re excited about * Efficient training (HRM, distillation, sparse/MoE, FSDP, etc.). \-Reasoning and tool use (automated trading and agentic interaction with data sources). \-Multimodal Inputs and Outputs (multiple forms of text and time-series both in and out). ### What we offer * A well-funded trading firm expanding into AI research - your ideas set direction and standards. \-Real ownership from hypothesis to deployment. \-Competitive base with meaningful upside tied to research impact. \-A culture optimized for deep work, fast learning, and doing the right thing. ### If this sounds like you, apply. Originally posted on [Himalayas](https://himalayas.app)