Quantitative Finance Researcher (Master's)
$40-50
/hr
Help shape the future of AI by lending your Quantitative Finance expertise. These roles are designed for experienced professionals and specialists to evaluate AI responses, create technical challenges, and provide domain-specific feedback. You will work as a contractor on your own schedule. Compensation varies based on your background: $100-$150/hr.
Part of: Investment Banking & Quant Finance
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Quantitative finance evaluation tasks require deep mathematical and statistical expertise applied to financial markets. You'll assess AI-generated quantitative strategies for mathematical rigor, evaluate whether backtesting methodologies avoid look-ahead bias and overfitting, and review derivatives pricing models for correct implementation of stochastic calculus. Tasks frequently involve assessing whether a proposed risk model (VaR, CVaR, stress testing) is appropriate for the described portfolio. Statistical arbitrage strategy evaluations test whether the AI correctly applies cointegration testing, mean reversion models, and transaction cost analysis. PhD or Master's in mathematics, physics, statistics, or financial engineering is typical. Prior experience at a quant fund, prop trading firm, or risk management function is strongly preferred.
This page is showing 9 listings, sourced from 5 platforms: Handshake (3), Mercor (3), AfterQuery (1), Turing (1) and Mindrift (1). The most recent one was picked up 7 days ago. The count moves as platforms post and close roles, so treat it as a snapshot of today rather than a fixed figure.
Most sit between $100 and $150 an hour, with a median of $150, measured across the 8 listings on this page that quote an hourly rate. The highest rate currently posted here is $220 an hour. These are the figures the platforms published, not our estimates, and the rate you are offered depends on how you do in that platform's assessment.
Handshake (3), Mercor (3), AfterQuery (1), Turing (1) and Mindrift (1). No single one dominates this category, so it is worth holding accounts on more than one. Most contracts allow you to work through several platforms at the same time.
The roles here fall across 4 areas, led by Mathematics (3), Finance (2), Business (2) and Generalist (2). Each listing spells out its own task type, so read the individual page before applying.
3 of these listings first appeared in the last 30 days, out of 9 live now. We rescrape the source platforms daily, so a page you checked last week will not be the same page today.
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