Head of AI

About the Company

Our client is an AI-native investment firm with autonomous agents that predict markets, build portfolios and manage risk. Its founders have managed institutional capital at one of the world's largest asset managers and have led enterprise ML at top-tier global financial and technology companies. They're building a new kind of firm, where live capital is the training ground for an intelligence that compounds with every signal.

About the Role

Financial markets offer something rare in AI research: a continuous, objective feedback loop. You can test new ideas, measure whether they actually work, and use real-world outcomes to inform what you build next. It's a chance to do frontier research with a direct line between the ideas you explore and how they perform in the real world.

As Head of AI, you'll lead the company's AI strategy and research and set the technical direction for how it applies frontier AI to investing. You'll explore new AI approaches, take on difficult research problems and help define how AI can better understand and predict financial markets. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll set the research agenda while continuing to work directly on technical challenges.

Challenges You'll Work On

• Set the AI research direction, identify the hardest problems worth solving and guide the team's technical work.
• Push the capabilities of foundation models, agentic systems and world models through new architectures and research approaches.
• Explore pre-training, mid-training and post-training methods to improve how models learn, reason and adapt.
• Advance tabular ML research, including emerging methods such as prior-data fitted networks (PFNs).
• Tackle the challenges of learning from small, high-dimensional datasets where traditional ML methods struggle.
• Turn promising research into models and systems that solve difficult real-world problems.

About You

• You've done exceptional AI research at a frontier AI lab, leading research initiatives and helping set technical direction.
• You have deep expertise in modern AI architectures, model training and machine learning.
• You have a strong research track record, including relevant publications.
• You have strong mathematical and statistical foundations and know how to tackle difficult problems with limited, complex data.
• You're a hands-on technical leader who can guide other researchers while developing, testing and implementing your own ideas.

Nice to Have

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

Location

Hybrid, with 3 days per week on-site in London or Zurich. A relocation allowance is available.

Compensation

Competitive cash compensation that reflects your experience, plus equity and carry (a share of fund profits).

Benefits

Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage, plus a strong benefits package that includes catered lunches, commuter benefits and more.

Working Here

As an early team member, you'll help shape not just the product but how the company operates, and your decisions will have a lasting impact across the business. You'll build from first principles, without legacy systems or entrenched processes slowing you down. The team comes from elite companies and universities, and it's low-ego, collaborative and excited to build together.