AI Researcher, LLMs
Hudson River Trading · London, United Kingdom; New York, NY, United States
Posted 19 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 19 days Hudson River Trading's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 8% of Hudson River Trading's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Hudson River Trading
- high 58 stale, 0 reposted of 78 open
- Hiring momentum
- 93 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
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About this role
As an LLM-focused AI Researcher at Hudson River Trading, you will be part of the HAIL team, responsible for developing and maintaining advanced AI models that support trading operations. Your daily tasks will involve working on the entire model development loop, including tokenizer training, dataset curation, pretraining, post-training, and evaluation design, all while collaborating with a small, independent team in a high-performance computing environment.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- Two or more years of hands-on experience training, post-training, or evaluating LLMs at scale
- Direct experience with at least one of: large-scale pretraining, post-training (SFT, RL), LLM evaluation design and statistical analysis, or distributed training/inference systems
- Research taste: ability to identify what's worth trying next, design ablations that change decisions, and update beliefs from evidence
- Strong engineering skills valued: GPU kernel development, lower-level PyTorch internals, or published work on a frontier-style LLM result
What you get
- Estimated base salary range of 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent)
- Discretionary performance-based bonuses
- Competitive benefits package
Worth weighing
- High expectations for driving frontier capability gains; not suitable for those who prefer adapting existing solutions
- Use of AI tools during interviews or assessments is strictly prohibited, which may affect some candidates' preparation strategies
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