Carter Wahlberg
AI Researcher - Alpha Generation (Equities)
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AI Researcher - Alpha Generation (Equities)
Madrid
Use cutting-edge machine learning to design the strategies that move real capital, at one of the world's most sophisticated hedge fund environments. This is a pure research seat. You'll sit alongside investment officers as part of a dedicated Research AI team, applying modern ML to generate alpha - primarily in equities. Your work isn't decision support or tooling; your models are the strategy. You'll go from hypothesis, to signal, to backtest, to something that trades.
You'll enjoy London-level compensation with the option of being based in Madrid, and the intellectual freedom of a team built around research rather than delivery.
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What you'll do
- Research, design and test AI/ML-driven strategies that generate alpha in equity markets
- Turn raw and alternative datasets into predictive signals, working end-to-end from data to live model
- Partner directly with investment officers to frame market problems as research problems
- Push the frontier - bringing the latest ML methods to bear on genuinely hard, high-stakes problems
What you'll need
- Strong grounding in machine learning fundamentals and the practical skill to build real ML systems that work
- Fluency in Python and a confident, end-to-end command of the data toolkit: pipelines, feature engineering, cleaning, and applied statistics
- Familiarity with time-series data and the structure of financial datasets
- A quantitative degree (Maths, Statistics, CS, Engineering, a hard science or similar) from a top university; MSc/PhD a strong plus
- An entrepreneurial, ownership-driven mindset - you run towards hard problems
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