AI Research Scientist
Cutting-Edge ML in Quantitative Research
High comp package (up to £150k base salary + generous bonus + remote work)
Vertex Search has partnered with a global systematic hedge fund start-up to hire their first-ever AI Research Scientist!
You'll join a small, highly technical team leveraging AI for alpha discovery. This is an opportunity to work on intellectually challenging problems where your research directly impacts trading and investment performance.
The Role
As an AI Research Scientist, you’ll operate at the intersection of research and engineering, designing, prototyping, and productionising machine learning solutions that help uncover complex, nonlinear patterns across vast time-series and alternative data sources.
You’ll get to:
- Collaborate with quantitative researchers to enhance existing predictive models using advanced ML methods.
- Explore novel problem formulations and apply state-of-the-art ML/AI (including generative and representation learning).
- Work with engineers to deploy robust, efficient solutions to live environments.
- Stay on the frontier of applied AI, introducing new approaches that can advance research and signal discovery.
You’ll likely have:
- A PhD or MSc in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related discipline.
- Around 5 years or more of experience post-degree.
- Experience using the latest AI models and techniques, such as representation learning, generative models, agentic AI, and others.
- Experience with time-series data, although this doesn't need to be within finance.
- Excellent collaboration skills across research and engineering teams.
- (Bonus) An interest in quantitative finance, though prior finance experience isn’t required.
