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Halluminate

Member of Technical Staff - Finance Researcher

San Francisco, California, United States

Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Lead / staff
Function
Finance
Pay
$215K – $275K a year
Posted
2 months ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $275K a year, is 15% above the median of $240K for lead / staff finance jobs in San Francisco (middle half $210K – $275K, 61 jobs that state pay).

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About the role

πŸš€ Company Description:

Halluminate is a data research lab building benchmarks and RL environments to push the frontier of AI in knowledge work.

Our first area of focus is economically valuable workflows in financial services and consulting, but we are rapidly expanding into adjacent verticals.

πŸ“‹ Role Description:

Halluminate is looking to hire an experienced Finance expert to join our research team to do Applied AI Research in the Financial Services domains.

The responsibilities of this role include:

  • 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.
  • Translating real-world insights on AI capabilities into our roadmap for RL environment building within the core team
  • Drive innovation of our RL environment problem building process with engineering and research teams - feedback directly contributing to core product and platform improvements
  • Working with research team to define state of the art benchmarks, leaderboards, new research directions, etc.

Necessary Skills Include:

  • 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)

βš•οΈ Benefits

  • Fully covered healthcare coverage for yourself and subsidized for dependents (Medical, Dental, Vision)
  • Relocation Stipend ($10k+)
  • 401k (4% match)
  • Food: Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner while working
  • Health: Free gym membership
  • Transportation: Free transportation to and from the office (Ubers, Waymo)
  • Visa Sponsorship (ex. H1B)

πŸŒ† Location

Full-Time In Person in San Francisco

Compensation

Base: $215k - $275k

Equity: 0.10 - 0.20%

Source

Posted by Halluminate on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 11:54 UTC; the original is the reference.

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