Halluminate builds RL environments for financial services — computer-use and tool-use gyms that train frontier AI models on real investment banking, private equity, and consulting work. Backed by Y Combinator and Alchemist.
About the role
This is an IC role focused on driving and defining the frontier of what AI looks like in Finance. Define and publish taxonomy of AI tasks/workflows in finance, and expanding that playbook to other industries (consulting, insurance, accounting, etc) to broader ecosystem and community
What they're looking for
- 4+ years of real-world experience in banking, consulting, strategic finance, investing, etc
- Deep mission alignment to revolutionize the way Finance Knowledge Work is done in the world
- Ability to analyze massive amounts of information and communicate it in a clean and presentable way for mass audience of stakeholders from researchers to finance industry leaders
- Product sense to interact between engineering and research team to improve platform and processes
- Detail oriented execution across projects, technical and problem solving skills to build and QA RL tasks
- Fluency in use of LLM/Agents in your daily finance work (automating spreadsheet modeling, building evals, testing latest products in finance category)
More about this role
Halluminate is an applied AI and data company working with frontier Labs to train Financial Services Super Intelligence. We do this by building high quality computer and tool-use RL (Reinforcement Learning) gyms to train AI agents that do work across financial services verticals (ex. excel modeling, powerpoint creation and more in Investment Banking, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, etc.) and broader knowledge work (consulting, insurance, etc).
The company graduated from YCombinator (S25) and is scaling the team.
Halluminate is looking to hire an experienced Finance expert to join our research team to do Applied AI Research in the Financial Services domains.
This is an IC role focused on driving and defining the frontier of what AI looks like in Finance.
Define and publish taxonomy of AI tasks/workflows in finance, and expanding that playbook to other industries (consulting, insurance, accounting, etc) to broader ecosystem and community
Talk with real-world financial services leaders at major banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, etc to get a boots on the ground report on AI adoption, drawbacks, capabilities, buying decisions, priorities, etc.
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