Founding AI Researcher

Continual Research Inc

$150K — $250K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor or above in a STEM field; PhD preferred.
  • Minimum 2 years relevant work experience, or significant research experience with deployed systems.
  • Proven experience in AI, machine learning, statistics, or finance.
  • Strong empirical judgment concerning experimental outcomes.
  • Ability to turn ambiguous research directions into actionable experiments and code.
  • Commitment to high standards and rapid execution with a collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

  • Design and improve autonomous multi-agent systems for investment strategies.
  • Build frameworks for agents to conduct research and self-critique.
  • Conduct experiments to enhance system reliability and judgment.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks for agent behavior and outputs.
  • Create knowledge bases to facilitate discovery.
  • Collaborate with quantitative analysts to teach agent systems about investment nuances.

Benefits

  • Equity share in the company.
  • Company-subsidized health insurance including medical, vision, and dental.
  • Access to health savings accounts (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSA), and 401(k) plans.
  • Regular wellness, commuting, and education subsidies.
Full Job Description
Push the boundary of AI for research and discovery in one of the most competitive, high-stakes, and fast feedback domains in the world. Markets punish vague thinking. They expose overfitting. They force systems to distinguish between causal signal and noise. That makes investing one of the best places to build and measure real agentic intelligence.

Today, the best investment ideas are produced by expensive teams of portfolio managers, analysts, researchers, data scientists, and engineers. With the latest advances in AI, we think the time is ripe for change.

The Role

You will work on the core intelligence layer: agents that discover, evaluate, and execute trading ideas. We are especially interested in people who can move between first-principles research and shipping. You should be comfortable reading papers, forming opinions, designing experiments, building systems, and debugging weird empirical results where the answer might be signal, noise, leakage, overfitting, or a bug. As a member of the founding team, you'll directly impact every level of the business, from product strategy to team culture.

As a member of the founding team, you'll directly impact every level of the business, from product strategy to team culture.

What you'll do
  • Design, implement, and improve autonomous multi-agent systems that discover, implement, and evaluate investment strategies.
  • Build agentic harnesses that enable agents to use tools, perform research, and critique their own conclusions.
  • Design and conduct experiments to improve system reliability, calibration, and empirical judgment in uncertain environments.
  • Develop robust evaluation frameworks for agent behavior, reasoning, and research outputs.
  • Create contextual corpora/knowledge base to drive and accelerate discovery
  • Collaborate with quants to learn the domain and teach the agentic system how to navigate the nuances of the problem space


What we're looking for
  • Bachelor or above in a STEM field. PhD preferred.
  • At least 2 years of work experience, or equivalent depth demonstrated through exceptional research and shipped systems.
  • Experience doing cutting-edge research in AI, machine learning, statistics, mathematics, computer science, physics, finance, or another technical field.
  • Strong empirical judgment. You know the difference between a real result, noise, leakage, a lucky backtest, and a broken experiment.
  • High agency. You can take an ambiguous research direction and turn it into experiments, code, results, and product improvements.
  • Low ego, high standards, fast execution.


Compensation
  • Salary of $150,000/year to $250,000/year
  • Generous equity in the company
  • Company-subsidized health insurance including medical, vision, and dental
  • HSA, FSA, dependent care FSA, and 401(k) plans provided
  • Regular wellness, commuter and learning subsidies


We are a small founding team with unusually deep experience across machine learning, hedge fund technology, and investment management. We recently raised a $10M seed round from leading investors in AI and fintech. Join part of our founding team to build the future of investing!

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