NLP / AI Engineer

Role/Responsibilities:

We are seeking a NLP engineer for a NLP research team within Point72. The ideal candidate has a track record of developing modern NLP solutions, including the use of LLMs, agents, RAG, open-source models fine-tuning and deployment, etc.

Responsibilities include:

• Exploring and combining rich internal and external textual datasets
• Building GenAI solutions, leveraging both internal models and external APIs
• Formulating research hypothesis to derive alpha
• Post-training models for specific tasks
• Benchmarking LLM approaches internal tasks

We believe the investment world offers unique opportunities to use modern NLP methods. We are a team ideally situated for that, having access to both internal and commercial datasets, with an end-to-end research philosophy and direct portfolio impact.

Requirements:

• Bachelor, Master’s or PhD graduate or candidate in computer science or another quantitative discipline
• Experience in NLP, particularly LLMs.
• Proficient in Python, SQL and general software engineering principles (github, testing, etc.)
• Data science stack familiarity
• Interest in financial markets
• Collaborative mindset