Hunter Bond
PhD Machine Learning/AI Researcher/Engineer : NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, JMLR : Global Elite Hedge Fund
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We are retained by an elite quantitative investment firm building a world-class research platform at the intersection of machine learning, generative AI, and quantitative finance. We are seeking an outstanding Machine Learning Researcher to join a highly selective research team.
You will work at the cutting edge of modern AI—designing, training, and scaling state-of-the-art ML and GenAI systems. This is a deeply research-driven role with direct ownership of ambitious problems and access to significant compute and data.
Key Responsibilities
- Train large-scale ML and generative AI systems end-to-end, from raw data processing through fine-tuning and evaluation
- Develop novel AI/ML architectures, including transformer-based and generative models
- Train state-of-the-art systems across supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning
- Explore and curate new datasets to extract novel signal and drive performance
- Contribute to original research and long-term AI strategy alongside elite researchers
- Work on LLMs, Deep Neural Nets, Computer Vision, Statistical ML, NLP
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Required Background
- Proven experience training ML models end-to-end, from data pipelines to fine-tuning
- Strong hands-on experience across transformers, generative models, and reinforcement learning
- Publications in top-tier ML venues (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, JMLR, IEEE, ACM)
- PhD/MSc in AI/ML or similar, or equivalent research experience from a top-tier academic institution
- Programmer in Python or C++
- Strong PhD academic or 'big-tech'
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Why This Role?
- Work with a world-class investment team leveraging state-of-the-art ML and AI to identify market opportunities
- Access to vast datasets and compute resources to push the limits of ML research
- Competitive base salary with meaningful performance upside and equity potential
- Opportunity to innovate in a high-growth, start-up-style environment
Salary: €200-400k plus huge bonus on offer. Apply now!
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