Head of AI

The role

You will lead AI strategy and research to set technical direction for applying frontier AI to investing. You will explore new AI approaches and tackle research problems to better understand and predict financial markets.

What you will do

• Set Poesis's AI research direction and guide the team's technical work
• Push the capabilities of foundation models, agentic systems and world models
• Explore pre-training, mid-training and post-training methods
• Advance tabular ML research including prior-data fitted networks
• Tackle challenges of learning from small, high-dimensional datasets
• Turn promising research into models and systems

Required qualifications

• Exceptional AI research at a frontier AI lab leading research initiatives and setting technical direction
• Deep expertise in modern AI architectures, model training and machine learning
• Strong research track record including relevant publications
• Strong mathematical and statistical foundations
• Ability to tackle difficult problems with limited, complex data
• Hands-on technical leader who can guide other researchers and develop, test and implement own ideas

Nice to have

• Experience with frontier tabular ML methods
• Experience applying ML to financial markets or complex, high-dimensional datasets

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Catered lunches
• Commuter benefits

Before you apply

• For U.S. candidates, current legal authorization to work in the US required
• Continuing work visa sponsorship available for full-time employees

About the company

Poesis is an AI-native investment firm running autonomous agents that predict markets, construct portfolios, and manage risk. The founders managed institutional capital at Capital Group and led enterprise ML at Goldman Sachs and Amazon.